Blagdon Lake Birds
Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica lapponica
(Very rare PM)
- Three, not aged, April 1907 (D. Carr). See note 1 below.
- Observed, 1933 (D. Carr).
- Three, not aged, 27th Sep. 1937 (C.H. Kaye, E.G. Bird).
- Three, not aged, 31st Aug. 1964 (K.L. Fox) & presumed same 2nd Sep. (E.M. Palmer).
- One, not aged, 20th-29th Sep. 1973.
- Three, not aged, 27th Sep. to 5th Oct. 1975.
- One, not aged, 3rd & 11th July 1976.
- One, not aged, 15th Sep. 1979.
- One, not aged, 4th Sep. 1989.
- One, juvenile, 2nd-8th Sep. 2001 (N.R. Milbourne et al.).
- One, not aged, 11th Sep. 2004 (A.H. Davis, R.M. Curber, N.R. Milbourne et al.).
- One, juvenile, 19th Dec. 2013 (N.R. Milbourne).
- One, presumed adult, 11th-17th Nov. 2016 (R. Higgins, N.R. Milbourne et al.).
- One, adult, 14th Nov. 2022 (P. & C. Delve, N.R. Milbourne).
Note 1: Donald Carr wrote "could have shot three last week" in his list dated 21st April 1907.
Bibliography (sources of information):
- Blaythwayt, Rev F.L. (ed.). Report on Somerset Birds, 1937. Somersetshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc.
- Davis, A.H. (ed.) Avon Bird Report, 2001. Avon Ornithological Group.
- Davis, H.H. (ed.). Bristol Bird Report, 1964. Bristol Naturalists' Society.
- Davis, H.H. (ed.). Somerset Birds, 1964. Somersetshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc.
- Davis, H.H. (ed.). Somerset Birds, 1973. Somersetshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc.
- McGeoch, J.A. (ed.). Somerset Birds, 1975. Somerset Ornithological Society.
- McGeoch, J.A. (ed.). Somerset Birds, 1976. Somerset Ornithological Society.
- Rose, Dr H.E. (ed.) Avon Bird Report, 2004. Avon Ornithological Group.
- Taylor, S.M. (ed.). Avon Bird Report, 1989. Avon Ornithological Group.
- Youdale, G. (ed.). Bird News, Sep. 1979. Bristol Ornithological Club.
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