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This bird habitually bobs up and down, known as 'teetering'.
British Birds - Sandpipers and Godwits
Godwits are shore birds (family Scolopacidae), large sandpipers with long legs and bills. Although not common tablefare today, they were once a popular British dish. Sir Thomas Browne writing in the seventeenth century noted that godwits "were accounted the daintiest dish in England." See if you can identify the following birds.
1 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of J M Garg
Wood Sandpiper
Black-tailed Godwit
Green Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Group: Sandpipers and allies
- Binomial: Tringa ochropus
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Status: Winter Visitor & Passage Migrant
- It frequently bobs up and down when standing.
- Often appears nervous and will fly off with a low zig-zagging flight when disturbed.
2 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Tim Lenz
Curlew Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Bar-tailed Godwit
Green Sandpiper
- Group: Sandpipers and allies
- Binomial: Tryngites subruficollis
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Status: Passage Migrant
- Outside the breeding season, this bird is normally found on short-grass habitats such as airfields or golf-courses.
- These birds pick up food by sight, mainly eating insects and other invertebrates.
3 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Jason Girvan
Purple Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Group: Sandpipers and allies
- Binomial: Tringa stagnatilis
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Status: Rare Vagrant
- They prefer to winter on fresh water wetlands such as swamps and lakes and are usually seen singly or in small groups.
- These birds forage by probing in shallow water or on wet mud.
4 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Sergey Yeliseev
Black-tailed Godwit
Common Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
- Group: Sandpipers and allies
- Binomial: Actitis hypoleucos
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Status: Resident Breeding Species And Passage Migrant
- It habitually bobs up and down, known as 'teetering', and has a distinctive flight with stiff, bowed wings.
- Its presence is often betrayed by its three-note call as it flies off.
5 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://photo-natur.de/
Bar-tailed Godwit
Common Sandpiper
Black-tailed Godwit
Pectoral Sandpiper
- Group: Sandpipers and allies
- Binomial: Calidris melanotos
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Status: Winter Visitor & Passage Migrant
- It is a very long-distance migrant breeding in the boggy tundra of northeast Asia and North America.
- On migration and in winter, this species is typically found in freshwater habitats.
6 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://photo-natur.de/
Black-tailed Godwit
Purple Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
- Group: Sandpipers and allies
- Binomial: Limosa limosa
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Status: Winter Visitor, Passage Migrant And Scarce Summer Breeding Species
- Unpaired males defend a temporary territory and perform display flights to attract a mate.
- Once eggs are laid, an area of 30-50 metres around the nest is defended.
7 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://www.marekszczepanek.pl/
Curlew Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Black-tailed Godwit
- Group: Sandpipers and allies
- Binomial: Calidris ferruginea
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Status: Winter Visitor And Passage Migrant
- The male performs an aerial display during courtship.
- The clutch of 3-4 eggs are laid in ground scrape in the tundra.
- This wader is highly gregarious.
8 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://photo-natur.de/
Wood Sandpiper
Black-tailed Godwit
Common Sandpiper
Bar-tailed Godwit
- Group: Sandpipers and allies
- Binomial: Limosa lapponica
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Status: Winter Visitor & Passage Migrant
- It breeds in the Arctic of Scandinavia and Siberia, and hundreds of thousands of them pass through the UK, on their way further south, or stop off here for the winter.
9 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://photo-natur.de/
Purple Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Black-tailed Godwit
Curlew Sandpiper
- Group: Sandpipers and allies
- Binomial: Calidris maritima
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Status: Winter Visitor & Passage Migrant
- The male takes the major responsibility for incubation and tends the chicks.
- This species is tame and approachable.
- Can be seen principally along the east and south coasts.
10 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://www.marekszczepanek.pl/
Green Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
- Group: Sandpipers and allies
- Binomial: Tringa glareola
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Status: Passage Migrant & Rare Localised Breeder In Far North
- This bird is a medium-sized wading bird, with a fine straight bill, yellowish legs and a conspicuous long white stripe from the bill over the eye to the back of the neck.
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