[Length 15.5 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Bar-tailed Godwit was photographed at the tidal mudflats, Dongtai, Jiangsu, China. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC17E II 1.7x Teleconverter on a Nikon D7100 camera. (Date: May 13, 2017)

[Length 15.5 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Bar-tailed Godwit was photographed at the tidal mudflats, Dongtai, Jiangsu, China. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC17E II 1.7x Teleconverter on a Nikon D7100 camera. (Date: May 13, 2017)

[Length 15.5 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Bar-tailed Godwit was photographed at the tidal mudflats, Dongtai, Jiangsu, China. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC17E II 1.7x Teleconverter on a Nikon D7100 camera. (Date: May 13, 2017)

[Length 15.5 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Bar-tailed Godwit was photographed at the tidal mudflats, Dongtai, Jiangsu, China. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC17E II 1.7x Teleconverter on a Nikon D7100 camera. (Date: May 13, 2017)

[Length 15.5 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Bar-tailed Godwit was photographed at the tidal mudflats, Dongtai, Jiangsu, China. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC17E II 1.7x Teleconverter on a Nikon D7100 camera. (Date: May 13, 2017)

[Length 16 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Bar-tailed Godwit was photographed at the flats south of Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC20E III 2.0x Teleconverter on a Nikon D7100 camera. (Date: August 18, 2014)

[Length 16 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Bar-tailed Godwit was photographed at Pool of Virkie, Sumburgh, Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, Great Britain. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF-S f4 lens (EFL=450mm) on a Nikon D100 camera. (Date: June 11, 2004)

[Length 16 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Bar-tailed Godwit was photographed at Swantner Park, Corpus Christi, Texas. Photo taken with a COOLPIX P520 camera (lens unknown). (Date: October 13, 2014)

[Length 16 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

Bar-tailed Godwits breed across northern Europe and Asia. They are also regular migrants and scarce breeders in western Alaska. When this one showed up five springs in a row along the New Jersey coast during the 1970's, it was always at the top of the Rare Bird Alert! This "European" Bar-tailed Godwit was photographed at the Longport Sod Banks near Longport, New Jersey, USA. Photo taken with a Celestron 750mm f5.6 mirror lens on Ektachrome 200 film. (Date: May 1977)