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1 REFERENCES Bar-tailed Godwits: An Age entry for Limosa Lapponica An Age: The Animal Ageing and Longevity database Bar-tailed Godwit BirdLife Australia Bar-tailed Godwit Wikipedia Bar-tailed Godwit oiseaux-birds.com Bar-tailed Godwit New Zealand Birds Online Bar-tailed Godwit Audubon Field Guide Bar-tailed Godwit Fact File Arkive Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica Wildlife Journal Junior Godwits: the Canterbury Coast Fact Sheet Kuaka, the bar-tailed godwit NZ Birds Limosa Lapponica Bar-tailed Godwit Australian Government Department of the Environment

2 REFERENCES Migration Brockie, Bob Our Amazing Migrating Godwits The Dominion Post 2/07/ Flight of the Godwit Hansford, David Alaska Bird Makes Longest Nonstop Flight Ever Measured National Geographic News 14 September / longest-flight.html Battley, P.R, Schuckard, R. and Melville, D.S. Movements of bar-tailed godwits and red knots within New Zealand New Zealand Department of Conservation, Woodley, Keith Flight of the Godwits New Zealand Listener 19 March Phil E. Battley and Danny I. Rogers Migration in Shorebirds of Australia by Andrew Geering, Lindsay Agnew and Sandra Harding CSIRO Publishing, 2008, 2007, pp Woodley, Keith Godwits: New Zealand to the World - One Bird s Voyage Raupo Publishing, 2009 REFERENCES Australian habitats Managing Threatened Beach-nesting Shorebirds Australian Government Department of Environment & Climate Change NSW Queensland Wader Study Group Shorebird research and conservation in Queensland, Australia

3 REFERENCES Asian wetlands IUCN Asian Coastal Wetlands MacKinnon, John, Verkuil, Yvonne I., and Murray, Nicholas 2012 IUCN situation analysis on East and Southeast Asian intertidal habitats, with particular reference to the Yellow Sea (including the Bohai Sea) Murray, Dr Nick Mapping East Asia s Disappearing Tidal Flats ECOS Issue 203, January 19, Murray, N.J., Clemens, R.S., Phinn, S.R., Possingham, H.P., Fuller, R.A Tracking the rapid loss of tidal wetlands in the Yellow Sea. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 12, [Subscriber access only] Photo Library: Collection: The Tidal Flats of the Yellow Sea within the East Asia Pacific Flyway of Coastal Birds GRID ARENDAL Working together to tackle the crisis in East Asian coastal wetlands BirdLife International REFERENCES Alaska Alaska Species Ranking System Summary report Bar-tailed Godwit 21/12/ Subspecies Conservation Summary Bar-tailed Godwit (western Alaskan) Limosa lapponica baueri Naumann, 1836 Scolopacidae REFERENCES Global Cooperation The Convention on Wetlands, the Ramsar Convention World Wetlands Day International Union for Conservation of Nature Transforming our world: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

4 REFERENCES Australian Code for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes 8th edition (2013) Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council Guidelines to the Use of Wild Birds in Research Edited by Abbot S. Gaunt & Lewis W. Oring The Ornithological Council Providing Scientific Information about Birds Special Publication 1997 Second Edition Oh my Godwit - New Zealand YouTube 22 Feb 2010 Journeyman Pictures (12.24 mins) Satellite Tracking 2008: Join us as we follow the amazing journeys of the Bar-tailed Godwit Global Flyway Network Tracking Alaska s Godwits Audobon Alaska (19.53 mins)

5 OTHER PICTURE BOOKS ABOUT GODWITS The Long, Long Journey: The Godwit s Amazing Migration by Sandra Markle Ill. by Mia Posada (Millbrook Press, 2013) The Very Important Godwit (With A CD of Songs) Stories and Songs by Jenny Pattrick Music by Laughton Pattrick Ill. by Jez Tuya (Random House NZ, 2011) Baba Didi and the Godwits by Nicola Muir Ill. by Annie Hayward (New Internationalist Publications, 2013) Godwit s Journey by Sandra Morris (Reed, 2004) Johnny s journey: a godwit story by Jared Bullen Ill. by Jeremy McCormick ( JTHWorx, 2011) Skalaska s new home by Marlene J. Bennetts Ill. by Trish Bowles (Emjay Publishing, 2005). PICTURE BOOKS ABOUT AUSTRALIAN BIRDS High Above the Sea by Narelle Oliver ( Jam Roll Press, 1991) The Best Beak in Boonaroo Bay by Narelle Oliver (Omnibus, 2011; Lothian, 1993) The Hunt by Narelle Oliver (Lothian, 1997) Home by Narelle Oliver (Omnibus, 2006) Fox and Fine Feathers by Narelle Oliver (Omnibus, 2009) Don t Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen by Narelle Oliver (Omnibus, 2013) Crow and the Waterhole by Ambelin Kwaymullina (Fremantle Press, 2011) Silly Birds by Gregg Dreise (Magabala Books, 2014) Kookoo Kookaburra by Gregg Dreise (Magabala Books, 2015) Where is Galah? by Sally Morgan (Hardie Grant Egmont, 2015)

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