: any of a genus (Limosa) of shorebirds that are related to the curlews and sandpipers and have a long slender slightly upturned or straight bill
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Shorebirds began their journeys early and travel fast, many of them after a short breeding season in the far, far north, so birds like sandpipers, yellowlegs, willets, godwits and curlews are already present in abundant numbers.
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Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
But seemingly out of nowhere, the godwit was found dead a week after its first sighting, officials said.
—Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
Martha’s Vineyard: Nineteen snow geese at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, a marbled godwit at Eel Pond in Edgartown, and a blue-gray gnatcatcher on Clay Pit Road at Aquinnah.
—BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
Martha’s Vineyard: a Black skimmer at Sarson’s Island, 2 Common ravens at Menemsha, and a White-eyed vireo. Nantucket: a rare western Cassin’s kingbird – one of fewer than five previous state records – in addition to a migrant Hudsonian godwit at Sesachacha Pond.
—Jesús Marrero Suárez, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
The Hudsonian godwit is one of them.
—Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
At Forest Beach in Chatham there was a pectoral sandpiper along with a whimbrel and the continuing marbled godwit and 5 Western willets.
—BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
This matches the migration of the blackpoll warbler, the authors write, as well as the Hudsonian godwit, which breeds just below the Arctic Circle before flying all the way to the southern coasts of South America.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2015
At Richmond Pond in Acoaxet, a Hudsonian godwit and three soras at Egypt Lane in Fairhaven.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
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Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
But seemingly out of nowhere, the godwit was found dead a week after its first sighting, officials said.
—Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
Martha’s Vineyard: Nineteen snow geese at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, a marbled godwit at Eel Pond in Edgartown, and a blue-gray gnatcatcher on Clay Pit Road at Aquinnah.
—BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
Martha’s Vineyard: a Black skimmer at Sarson’s Island, 2 Common ravens at Menemsha, and a White-eyed vireo. Nantucket: a rare western Cassin’s kingbird – one of fewer than five previous state records – in addition to a migrant Hudsonian godwit at Sesachacha Pond.
—Jesús Marrero Suárez, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
The Hudsonian godwit is one of them.
—Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
At Forest Beach in Chatham there was a pectoral sandpiper along with a whimbrel and the continuing marbled godwit and 5 Western willets.
—BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
This matches the migration of the blackpoll warbler, the authors write, as well as the Hudsonian godwit, which breeds just below the Arctic Circle before flying all the way to the southern coasts of South America.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2015
At Richmond Pond in Acoaxet, a Hudsonian godwit and three soras at Egypt Lane in Fairhaven.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
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