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.
Project measures
LIFE Godwit Flyway aims to improve the conservation status of the Black-tailed Godwit along the East Atlantic Flyway. The project comprises measures to increase reproduction rates in Germany, and to improve the birds' return rates from their staging and wintering grounds in Portugal and West Africa.
Habitats for Godwits
In biology, “habitat” refers to the area and recources used by a particular species in one stage of its life cycle. It is determined by specific abiotic and biotic factors. For the Black-tailed Godwit, we distinguish between breeding, staging and wintering habitats.
