Keeping Godwits aloft
Welcome to the website of the LIFE Godwit Flyway project. With this EU-funded project we aim at creating optimised habitats for the Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa limosa) along its East Atlantic Flyway.
This includes measures in the most important breeding sites in Lower Saxony, in the central staging site in Portugal, and in significant wintering sites in The Gambia, West Africa.
The project will run for seven years. It started in July 2023 and will be concluded by the end of October 2030. It is a complementary project of the LIFE IP GrassBirdHabitats.
Habitats for Godwits
In biology, habitat refers to the area and recources determined for a particular species by specific abiotic and biotic factors, where the species lives at one stage of its life cycle. For the Black-tailed Godwit, we distinguish between breeding, staging and wintering habitats.