Bar-tailed Godwit (European)

Bar-tailed Godwit in shallow water with other shorebirds

Bar-tailed Godwit and friends. 4 Aug 2012, Chatham. Photo by J. Trimble.

12 records

MARC numberDecisionCountLocationCountyArrivalDepartureObserversNotesReport
1907-002A1Cape CodBarnstable9/16/19079/16/1907collected by Chester R. Lamb (ph. Jeremiah Trimble)16
1979-006A1Monomoy NWRBarnstable7/4/19798/19/1979Robert Clem*, Blair Nikula (ph)ssp not mentioned in report, but reported as lapponica in American Birds and in David Czaplak's eBird report; dates originally published in 24th report as 4-6 July 1979, but corrected to 4 Jul-19 Aug since American Birds lists it as 14 Jul-19 Aug, but the start date seems clearly to have been 4 July24
1991-005A1North Monomoy IslandBarnstable5/19/19915/19/1991Blair Nikula*basic plumage; presumed different birds on 19 May and 11-14 Aug 19911
1991-007A1North Monomoy IslandBarnstable8/11/19918/14/1991Blair Nikula*basic plumage; presumed different birds on 19 May and 11-14 Aug 19911
1992-009A1North Monomoy IslandBarnstable6/3/199210/28/1992Blair Nikula*basic plumage1
1992-010A1North Monomoy IslandBarnstable7/8/19929/5/1992Blair Nikula*breeding plumage1
1997-030A1Plymouth--Nelson FieldPlymouth12/29/19972/15/1998Jeremiah Trimble*, Jackie Sones3
2004-007A1North Monomoy IslandBarnstable5/12/20045/12/2004Blair Nikula et al.alternate plumage9
2004-008A1South Beach, ChathamBarnstable6/5/20046/5/2004Blair Nikulabasic plumage9
2012-071A1Tuckernuck IslandNantucket6/7/20126/9/2012Dick Veit* (ph), Simon Perkins* (ph)first-summer plumage; both records pertain to first-summer birds of the same subspecies and occurrence only a short distance apart, so the MARC formally voted to treat these as the same individual at its October 2024 annual meeting17
2012-072A1South Beach, ChathamBarnstable6/21/20129/15/2012Blair Nikula (ph), Ryan Schain (ph), m.ob.first-summer plumage; SAME BIRD ISSUES: both records pertain to first-summer birds of the same subspecies and occurrence only a short distance apart, so the MARC formally voted to treat these as the same individual at its October 2024 annual meeting17
2025-022A1Tuckernuck IslandNantucket5/20/20255/21/2025Richard Veit* (ph), m. ob.29