---
title: "Szlamnik zwyczajny"
description: "Limosa lapponica — Ptaki. The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large and strongly migratory wader in the family Scolopacidae, which feeds on bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/bar-tailed-godwit
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Szlamnik zwyczajny

> Limosa lapponica — Ptaki. The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large and strongly migratory wader in the family Scolopacidae, which feeds on bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries.

- Scientific name: *Limosa lapponica*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże), `arctic` (Arktyka)
- iNaturalist observations: 17004
- Wikidata: [Q18864](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18864)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3951](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3951)

## Names

- en: Bar-tailed Godwit
- de: Pfuhlschnepfe
- es: Picopando cola barrada
- fr: Barge rousse
- nl: Rosse grutto
- pt: Fuselo
- pl: Szlamnik zwyczajny

## Countries with the most observations

AU (4601), NZ (2476), GB (1125), RU (877), PT (600), ES (567), US (519), DE (481), FR (422), NL (375), KR (248), ZA (228)

## Summary

The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large and strongly migratory wader in the family Scolopacidae, which feeds on bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries. It has distinctive red breeding plumage, long legs, and a long upturned bill. Bar-tailed godwits breed on Arctic coasts and tundra from Scandinavia to Alaska, and overwinter on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of Australia and New Zealand. The migration of the subspecies Limosa lapponica baueri across the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to New Zealand is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird, and also the longest journey…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar-tailed_godwit

## Photo

![Szlamnik zwyczajny](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bar-tailed-godwit/medium.jpg)

Photo: ChrisMcV · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/291555207

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bar-tailed-godwit?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).