English: Black-tailed Godwit
Russian: Большой веретенник
German: Uferschnepfe
French: Barge a queue noire
Mongolian: Морин цууцал
Japanese: オグロシギ (Oguro-shigi)

Body length: 37-42 cm
Wing span: 63-74 cm

Passage migrant
Breeding season: May-August 

Egg number: 4 (occasionally 3-5)
Egg colour: Buff with olive-brown or dark brown  small blotches, spots.
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least Concern

Food: Insects, annelid and polychaete worms, molluscs and spiders.

Habitat: Open wet meadows, swamps, marshy-grasslands and boggy areas in forest steppe and mountain steppe zones along the valleys of rivers. The nest is a shallow hollow lined with grass. During migration, it occurs in freshwater habitats, including swampy lakes shores, flooded grasslands and sandy beaches of temporary and permanent lakes.