Bar-tailed Godwit

The bar-tailed godwit is a relatively short-legged godwit, 37–41 centimetres long from bill to tail, with a wingspan of 70–80 centimetres. Males average smaller than females, with much overlap: males weigh 190–400 grams and females 260–630 grams. The adult has blue-grey legs and a long, tapering, slightly upturned bicoloured bill, pink at the base and black towards the tip. In breeding plumage the neck, breast and belly are unbroken brick red, with dark brown upperparts. (Wikipedia, general species account)

This large, strongly migratory wader feeds on bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries. It breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra from Scandinavia to Alaska and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions, including Australia and New Zealand. The subspecies baueri migrates across the Pacific from Alaska to New Zealand, the longest known non-stop flight of any bird and the longest journey without pausing to feed by any animal. (Wikipedia, general species account)