The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large
wading bird in the family
Scolopacidae. Breeding takes place each summer in the Arctic, and the bird then makes a long-distance
migration southwards to overwinter in more temperate areas, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. This photograph, taken in March, shows a bird in non-breeding plumage at
Taren Point in
New South Wales, Australia.Photograph credit:
John Harrison