Black-tailed Godwit

The black-tailed godwit is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird. There are four subspecies, all with an orange head, neck and chest in breeding plumage, a dull grey-brown winter plumage and a distinctive black-and-white wing bar at all times. It breeds from Iceland through Europe and central Asia and winters as far apart as the Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand, western Europe and West Africa (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds in fens, lake edges, damp meadows, moorland and bogs, and in winter uses estuaries, swamps and floods. It is more likely than the similar bar-tailed godwit to be found inland and on freshwater.