How to Use godwit in a Sentence

godwit

noun

• The following summer, the team returned, as did at least nine of the ten godwits.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Their approach startled the predator, who took off with the mother godwit in its claws.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• At the time, there were no tags sufficiently lightweight for tracking birds as small as godwits.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• The godwit males remained in spruce treetops, give or take an occasional short flight.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• About a hundred and fifty Hudsonian godwit pairs breed in the bogs near Beluga.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• One of the more reliable approaches to nest-finding is to follow a male godwit returning to take over nighttime duties.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Although much remains unknown about godwits in general, even more remains unknown about the juveniles.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Maybe, but, between 2011 and 2023, the godwits’ arrival date shifted again, to as many as six days later.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Then, in March of 1992, some forty godwit carcasses were seized from a poacher in New Zealand.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Along with godwits, the peninsula was a summer home to yellowlegs, dowitchers, sandpipers, Arctic terns, and other species.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• And long-distance migratory shorebirds, like the Hudsonian godwit, may be in the most trouble.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Gill suspected that these chubby godwits were preparing to fly non-stop from Alaska to New Zealand, where this species wintered.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Between 1974 and 2010, godwits were arriving earlier than usual, by as much as nine days.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• The godwits that wintered farther away, in Portugal, actually fared better than those that wintered in England.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Guglielmo wondered whether godwits did something similar, even though hanging motionless in a torpor seems pretty different from flying.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• These four eggs are usually the birds’ one hope during the whole year of producing offspring; the festive godwits of Chiloé become, in the breeding grounds, measured, quiet, and focussed.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• The Maori tell a story about how a godwit showed their ancestors the way from their ancient homeland of Hawaiki to New Zealand, more than a thousand miles away.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Godwit couples maintain large territories, establishing nests far from other godwits.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Flocks of Hudsonian godwits (the smallest of the four godwit species and the least well known) spend from roughly early October to April in and around the tidal mudflats there.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• The Hudsonian godwits appeared eternally committed to these revels.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Chiloé is where Hudsonian godwits spend their non-breeding season and express their non-breeding personality, which is intensely gregarious and food-oriented.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• The long-term survival of Hudsonian godwits—and migratory shorebirds more broadly—depends to a significant degree on scientists figuring out what efforts will be most effective.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• The gold medal winner for best all-time flyer is the Hudsonian godwit, which breeds in southern Alaska and west-central Hudson Bay in Canada, near the Arctic tundra.
  — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
• Senner leads a research laboratory at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, that is largely focussed on how migratory shorebirds, such as godwits, respond to environmental change.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026