Wooden decoys long played a key role in hunting birds. Artist David Personius hopes his modern take can inspire conservation ...

Bar-tailed godwit One hero of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway is the bar-tailed godwit. The tawny bird may look unassuming, but its annual migration is nothing less than remarkable. An ...

Bar-tailed godwits have been spotted in the region ... Their call is onomatopoeic, which means it sounds similar to their name, going ‘godwit, godwit’. Subramaniam says that their exact ...

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 ...

And for good reason: Some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day non-stop flight of the bar-tailed godwit across the Pacific Ocean.

One of the birds released in 2017 back in the Fens at Manea Out of 55 black-tailed godwit eggs saved from muddy flooded fields in The Fens, 38 chicks have been fledged in captivity this year.

Some birds, like the bar-tailed godwit, have an instinctive ability to migrate at birth. Some, however, must follow their parents to migrate and learn their route for future years.

Junior farm minister Jean Rummenie is planning to set aside tens of millions of euros to save the black tailed godwit (limosa limosa), dubbed the Dutch national bird, whose number has been plummeting ...

and both Black-tailed and Bar-tailed Godwit. A decline in agricultural activity has led to many islands on Lough Ree being ...