
Limosa lapponica
Dorob National Park, West Coast National Park and Namib-Naukluft are among the five atlas places where the Bar-tailed Godwit is recorded. Its records concentrate in Australia, Norway, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Spain, with the atlas map following where these observations cluster. There are about 268,000 records of this bird across 29 countries.
Because the Bar-tailed Godwit is recorded in both hemispheres, the months of its presence differ by region, and each place page shows the timing for that area.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Bar-tailed Godwit as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.