| 41. | Black-tailed godwits spend winter in areas as diverse as the Indian Subcontinent, Australia, western Europe and west Africa.
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| 42. | Some of the migratory species include the Mongolian plover, eastern curlew, grey-tailed tattler and bar-tailed godwit.
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| 43. | The most famous godwit, known as E7, has flown all the way from Alaska to New Zealand non-stop.
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| 44. | They are one of the most ancient lineages of scolopacid waders, together with the godwits which look similar but have straight bills.
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| 45. | The English term " godwit " was first recorded in about 1416 7 and is believed to imitate the bird's call.
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| 46. | For the same reason, the ruff does not physiologically shrink its digestive organs to reduce bodyweight before migrating, unlike the godwit.
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| 47. | The nearby Kalnciems Meadows is a natural habitat for fauna such as the corn crake, spotted crake, and black-tailed godwit.
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| 48. | The lagoon attracts a wide variety of water birds including American flamingoes, ducks, garganey, black-tailed godwit and other shorebirds.
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| 49. | It was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board ( 1998 ) after the godwit, a migratory bird which summers in New Zealand.
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| 50. | Scolopacidae is a large diverse family of small to medium-sized shorebirds including the sandpipers, curlews, godwits, direct competition for food.
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