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Limosa lapponica (Bar-tailed Godwit)

Synonyms: Limosa lapponica anadyrensis; Limosa rufa; Scolopax lapponica (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large wader in the family Scolopacidae. The genus name Limosa is from Latin and means "muddy", from limus, "mud". The specific lapponica refers to Lapland. The English term "godwit" was first recorded in about 1416–7 and is believed to imitate the bird's call.
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Infraspecies

Limosa lapponica baueri (Bar-tailed godwit) (Attributes)
Limosa lapponica lapponica (Bar-tailed godwit) (Attributes)
Limosa lapponica menzbieri
Limosa lapponica taymyrensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
9
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
34
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 18.5156
EDGE Score: 2.97122
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  379 grams
Birth Weight [3]  28 grams
Female Weight [5]  342 grams
Male Weight [5]  292 grams
Weight Dimorphism [5]  17.1 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Arctic tundra
Wintering Geography [2]  Paleotropics
Wintering Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  80 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  10 %
Forages - Ground [4]  50 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  50 %
Clutch Size [6]  4
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [5]  28 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  1,100,000
Incubation [3]  21 days
Mating System [8]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [3]  31 years
Migration [7]  Intercontinental
Speed [9]  40.936 MPH (18.3 m/s)
Wing Span [9]  29 inches (.73 m)
Female Maturity [3]  2 years
Male Maturity [3]  2 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Buteo lagopus (Rough-legged Hawk)[11]
Corvus corax (Northern Raven)[11]
Limosa lapponica (Bar-tailed Godwit)[11]

Providers

Mutual (symbiont) 
Deropristis inflata[11]
Monorchis parvus[11]
Profilicollis botulus[11]
Sacculina carcini[11]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 7Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 8Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 9Alerstam T, Rosén M, Bäckman J, Ericson PGP, Hellgren O (2007) Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects. PLoS Biol 5(8): e197. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050197
♦ 10Energy flow of a boreal intertidal ecosystem, the Sylt-Rømø Bight, Dan Baird, Harald Asmus, Ragnhild Asmus, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 279: 45–61, 2004
♦ 11Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 12Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 13Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0