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A banded bar-tailed godwit in flight over the Yukon Delta, Alaska
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A banded bar-tailed godwit in flight over the Yukon Delta, Alaska

by Ryan Askren

Category: AvianAdded November 17, 2009328 views

Long-legged Waders, Sandpiper-like Birds

Keywords: bar-tailed godwit, shorebird, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta National Wildlife Refuge, research, banded, marked, ringed, study, migration, New Zealand

A female bar-tailed godwit takes wing over the Yukon Delta NWR in Alaska. This individual was banded in New Zealand where it winters, making bar-tailed godwits on of the longest, non-stop migrators.
Image Format: Digital Capture - Greater than 9MPImage Crop: Greater than 75% of originalDigital Enhancement: Digital RetouchModel Release: NAProperty Release: NACaptive: No