It’s the start of August, which means that a month from now, spring! will be here. And somewhere around the second week of spring, eastern bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica baueri) start arriving in Motueka, after travelling from their western Alaska breeding grounds. During that entire trip, they don’t stop. At all. For six to eight days. For 12,000 kilometres. This photo, taken last year, shows a male and a female on the Motueka estuary. The female is the one in the foreground, with the longer bill.
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