English: Bar-tailed Godwit      

Russian: Малый веретенник

Mongolian: Хурган цууцаль

German: Pfuhlschnepfe

French: Barge rousse

Japanese:  オオソリハシシギ (O-sorihashi-shigi)

Body length: 33-41 cm
Wing span: 62-72 cm

Breeds on open tundra and taiga bogs. Migrates (late May and late Jul-Aug) mainly along coasts and over sea to and from winter grounds in W Europe and W Africa. Large flocks on some tided flats.

Identification: About equal in size to Black-tailed Godwit, from which told by shorter legs and slightly shorter; usually clearly upcurved bill (beware that bill is longer on ♀ than on ♂ and hence more like Black-tailed). The two godwits best told by plumage: barred tail; white rump extending in point up back (as on Curlew); plain wings lacking wing-bar. Leg projection shorter than on Black-tailed. Bill dark with pink base.

• Adult summer: ♂ has whole underparts dark rufous (darker than Black-tailed), whereas much paler underparts of ♀ (off-white, washed pale apricot) usually entirely lack rufous, and breast is streaked. Bill black with a little pale at base.
• Adult winter: Upperparts pale with a little pale at base. Adult winter: Upperparts pale brownish-grey, with dark feather centres giving streaked effect (Black-tailed plain); off-white below without buff; faintly streaked on breast-sides only. Bill pink-based.
  
• Juvenile: Like adult winter but darker above, with neatly buff-spotted edges to scapulars and (most obvious) tertials; breast all streaked; buff wash on foreneck/breast.