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I was lucky enought to get some good photos of bar tailed godwit on our recent stay at the Manawatu estuary. Godwits are an amazing bird completing one of the most extraordinary migration patterns of any bird migrating from Alaska where they breed to New Zealand where they spend the summer restocking, building themselves up before returning to Alaska for the next breeding season.  They typically arrive here in September after an 8 to 9 day non stop flight and can be seen feeding in the …