Barred tailed godwit - Limosa lapponica

Received SMS text from Jason aka Harokuro 0917am, barred tailed godwit at near Tg Aru.

Drop everything when looking for him and other birder's, Andrew and Karim. I did not brought
my scope or bino but good friend Jason allowed me to use his scope.

Beautiful bird, my first godwit for this year. There were others birds too, Chinese egret , Greater egret, Pacific reef egret, Grey-tailed tattler, Whimbrel.

Thanks Guys.

This winter visitor is commonly migrate to New Zealand as per information from Wikedia Commons.

Extract for reference:

Migration of the Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica.Bar-tailed Godwits have recently (March 2007) been shown to undertake the longest non-stop flight of any bird. Using satellite tracking, birds in New Zealand were tagged and tracked all the way to the Yellow Sea in China. According to Dr. Clive Minton (Australasian Wader Studies Group) "The distance between these two locations is 9,575 km, but the actual track flown by the bird was 11,026 km. This is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird. The flight took approximately nine days. At least three other Bar-tailed Godwits also appear to have reached the Yellow Sea after non-stop flights from New Zealand."