This is a black-tailed godwit in a Dutch meadow, with colour rings and a geolocator on its legs. The picture was used on the cover of the April issue of the Journal of Avian Biology.
A WWT spokeswoman said their return was "a miracle, an incredible story". What is a black-tailed godwit? Rare black-tailed godwits released into wild at Welney Black-tailed godwit returns to ...
The black-tailed godwit was one of 26 raised at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Welney, Norfolk. They were released last summer and migrated as far as Portugal for winter ...
William Costa, project manager and lead aviculturist at WWT, said: “Without ongoing efforts to restore wetlands around the Fens there would probably be no black-tailed godwit chicks fledging in ...
The Black-tailed godwit, that was categorised as ‘Near Threatened’ in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, was sighted for the first time in Erode district at ...
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