Which Godwit, help please. Muscat, Oman, March 23 2024 (1 Viewer)

[bhutjoe]

Hi, these photos were taken on a very shallow creek, about 100 meters in from the shoreline, in Muscat, close to the airport. I suspect they are all black-tail fodwits, but i am hoping that I am wrong and one or more are bar-tailed.
All comments and suggestions and corrections much appreciated.
Apologies for their poor quality, especially the last 3.
thank you in advance
steve

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Can only see Black-tailed Godwits here.

 

[Butty]

Note underparts are largely breeding plumage - quite different from any plumage of bar-tailed godwit (see you field guide for details).
Retained winter upperpart feathers are plain, without central dark streak of bar-tailed godwit.

 

[bhutjoe]

Thank you Andrew and Butty. Much appreciated. It was the barring underparts that made me suspect black-tailed but I had read they were found more in deeper water and that bar-tailed were in mud, so I was hoping the last 3 photos, which I could not make much out, might have been bar-tailed. Oh well, try again
thanks again
steve

 

[Butty]

the barring underparts that made me suspect black-tailed but I had read they were found more in deeper water and that bar-tailed were in mud

It saves time, and helps people to help you and to give you more-targeted and more-useful answers, if thoughts/doubts like this are given right at the outset

 

[bhutjoe]

right, i should have said more. point taken
steve