GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN, RETURN RATES, AND MOVEMENTS OF THE NEAR-THREATENED BLACK-TAILED GODWITS LIMOSA LIMOSA STAYING AT A MAJOR STOPOVER SITE OF IBERIA.

The article presents a study which determines geographical origins, return rates, and movements of the near-threatened black-tailed godwits or Limosa limosa by colour marking in the Extramadura rice fields in Iberia. It explains that unknown fundamental aspects such as return rates exist on the stopover ecology of the godwits in Iberia. It discloses that captured godwits were marked and measured for movements, return rates, and geographical origin. It reveals that the black-tailed godwits staying in rice fields belong to the subspecies L.l. limosa and that Extramadura is a possible take-off site for the said subspecies.