11. Feeding in deeper water are the longer-legged avocets, stilts and godwits . 12. Godwits were once a popular British dish.13. Migratory birds including Siberian avocet and black-tailed godwit , and many other waders. 14. The New Zealand government purposely limits the local population for the sake of the godwits . 15. There are also winter visitors including black-tailed godwits , grey plovers and turnstones. 16. Small Godwit symbols were placed beneath the cockpit side windows as a link to the past. 17. The surrounding dry prairie uplands offer opportunities to observe marbled godwits and long-billed curlews. 18. The Matagorda Bay area contains American oystercatchers, Hudsonian godwits , and white-rumped sandpipers. 19. The Bar-tailed Godwit , for example, migrates from Alaska to New Zealand each year. 20. Across the years, he chronicles the passing creatures, from marbled godwits to short-billed dowitchers.