Limosa haemastica ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: SCOLOPACIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Near Threatened
© Andy Johnson
A large shorebird with a long, upturned bill, the Hudsonian Godwit breeds in the Arctic and winters in southern South America. Its remote breeding and wintering grounds have kept it one of the least well known of American shorebirds.
Call a rising "toe, wit."