Birds found there range from moorhens to Hudsonian godwits. There are also winter visitors including black-tailed godwits, grey plovers and turnstones. The surrounding dry prairie uplands offer opportunities to observe marbled godwits and long-billed curlews. The Matagorda Bay area contains American oystercatchers, Hudsonian godwits, and white-rumped sandpipers. In wet pastures, bar-tailed godwits eat invertebrates. Pinkfooted and greylag geese, wigeons, grey plovers and bar-tailed godwits are the other visitors. Male bar-tailed godwits are smaller than females and have shorter bills. They are northern pintail, white-winged tern, Eurasian curlew, Eurasian whimbrel, godwits, and ruddy turnstone. Along the beaches pied oystercatcher, bar-tailed godwits, tattlers and crested terns are often seen. Other birds that eat sand crabs include willets, godwits, surf scoters, blackbellied plovers, and curlews. Godwits were once a popular British dish. Feeding in deeper water are the longer-legged avocets, stilts and godwits. Black-tailed godwits are seen every few years on the reserve. In England, black-tailed godwits were formerly much prized for the table. Asian black-tailed godwits winter in Australia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.