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Dan Gibson (January 19, 1922 in Montreal – March 18, 2006 in Toronto) was a Canadian photographer, cinematographer and sound recordist. Career.
The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large and strongly migratory wader in the family Scolopacidae, which feeds on bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries. It has distinctive red breeding plumage, long legs, and a long upturned bill.
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Original – Bar-tailed Godwit in breeding plumage Reason High EV and good clarity Articles in which this image appears Bar-tailed Godwit, List of Charadriiformes by population FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds Creator Andreas Trepte. Support as nominator--Tomer T 08:18, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
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The marbled godwit is now placed in the genus Limosa that was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. [4] [5] The genus name Limosa is from Latin and means "muddy", from limus, "mud". The specific epithet fedoa may be an Old English name for a godwit. [6] The word was mentioned by the English naturalist William ...
Daniel Gibson is a Canadian author studying the early history of Arabia and Islam.He is the author of Early Islamic Qiblas: A survey of mosques built between 1AH/622 C.E. and 263 AH/876 C.E, which advances the claim that early mosques were oriented towards Petra, rather than towards Mecca or Jerusalem as traditionally accepted by archaeologists and historians of Islam.