Bar-tailed Godwit

Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758) — also called Barwit. Occurrence records of the Bar-tailed Godwit are shared on GBIF from around 5 parks and reserves in the directory, most of all Langebaan Lagoon Marine Protected Area (518 records), in 3 provinces.

IUCN: Near threatenedScolopacidae

5reserves with records

1 106records around them

3provinces

NTIUCN category

Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) — Photo: JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is recorded

Reserve	Province	Records
Langebaan Lagoon Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	518
West Coast National ParkNational park	WC Western Cape	454
De Mond Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	124
Fort D' Acre ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	7
Mzamba Fossil bedsProtected heritage site	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	3

By province

Western Cape: 3 reserves
KwaZulu-Natal: 1 reserve
Eastern Cape: 1 reserve

Taxonomy

Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Scientific name: Limosa lapponica
GBIF taxon: 2481681
Wikidata: Q18864

More of the Scolopacidae family

Common Sandpiper Common Greenshank Little Stint Whimbrel Curlew Sandpiper Sanderling African Snipe Wood Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Ruff Marsh Sandpiper Eurasian Curlew Terek Sandpiper

Source: GBIF.org occurrence records within the radius of each reserve's point; taxonomy and IUCN category from the GBIF backbone; photo from Wikimedia Commons, credit on the picture. Records near a reserve do not prove the species lives inside it.