Tweet Take 5 : Godwits

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Britain is home to two species of godwit, the black tailed godwit and the bar tailed godwit. The name godwit possibly derives from the Anglo Saxon word for a god-wiht or a good bird to eat, when the black tailed godwit especially was considered a delicacy for the table. Small numbers of Black tailed godwits do breed in the UK. Bar tailed godwits however are winter visitors when they are also joined around the coastline by thousands of black-tailed godwits from Iceland. In this extended version of Tweet of the Day, you will hear from wildlife presenter Martin Hughes-Games and environmentalist Tony Juniper. Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Andrew Dawes