Potential Confusion Between Godwits and Dowitchers

[knightl <>]

Just as a quick follow-on from my previous post about male bar-tailed 
godwits in breeding plumage, I have put a couple of pix of the breeding 
plumaged individual on ozbirdpix  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ozbirdpix/message/186.
Basically, the bird is smaller than most godwits and has an almost 
completely black bill, yet is still a bar-tailed godwit, and not the 
asiatic dowitcher I would have like to have seen.  I believe that the 
key is the shape of the bill, and feeding behaviour [if the birds 
aren't loafing].
Regards, Laurie.

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