Species: Limosa fedoa

Marbled Godwit

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Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Craniata

Class

Aves

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae

Genus

Limosa

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Classification

Other Global Common Names

Picopando Canelo, Zarapito Moteado - barge marbrée

Informal Taxonomy

Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Shorebirds

Formal Taxonomy

Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae - Limosa - Alaska breeding population recently was described as a new subspecies (BERINGIAE; Gibson and Kessel 1989).

Ecology and Life History

Short General Description

A large shorebird (godwit).

Migration

false - false - true - Alaska breeding population apparently winters on Pacific coast from Washington to northern California; spring migration in Alaska late April-May (Gibson and Kessel 1989). Migrates through Costa Rica August-September and late March-April (Stiles and Skutch 1989).

Non-migrant

false

Locally Migrant

false

Food Comments

Probes in mud and tidal flats for mollusks, crustaceans, and worms; eats grasshoppers and other insects on prairies and meadows; also eats tubers and seeds of pondweeds, sedges, and muskgrass (Terres 1980).

Reproduction Comments

Breeding begins mid- to late May (Harrison 1978). Usually 4 eggs are incubated by both sexes. Length of incubation is not known. Nestlings are precocial. Often nests in semicolonial groups (Hayman et al. 1986).

Ecology Comments

Nonbreeding: forages singly or in small loose groups, roosts in larger groups (Stiles and Skutch 1989).<br><br>Breeding territories large, often including both feeding and nesting areas; in North Dakota, mean size 90 hectares (Ryan et al. 1984). Nests occasionally as close as 60 meters (Nowicki 1973, Gratto-Trevor 2000). Distances between nests of same birds in different years range from 73-1060 meters (Gratto-Trevor 2000).<br>

Length

Weight

371

Conservation Status

NatureServe Global Status Rank

Global Status Last Reviewed

1996-11-25

Global Status Last Changed

1996-11-25

Other Status

LC - Least concern

Distribution

Conservation Status Map

Global Range

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - BREEDING: largest breeding population: southern Prairie Provinces of Canada south to central Montana, central North Dakota, northeastern South Dakota and northwestern Minnesota (AOU 1983); smaller isolated populations at James Bay, Canada, and vicinity of Ugashik Bay, Alaska, on northern coast of Alaskan Peninsula (Gibson and Kessel 1989). NON-BREEDING: southern U.S. (central California, western Nevada, Gulf coast, coastal South Carolina south to Florida) south to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northern Chile (AOU 1983). Accidental in Hawaii. Nonbreeders occur in summer in winter range. MIGRATION: primarily through interior North America and along California coast, regularly north to British Columbia and southern Alaska, and, primarily in fall, along Atlantic coast from southeastern Canada to Greater Antilles (AOU 1983). Previously (mid-1800s) an abundant migrant along Atlantic coast from New England south; now rare. Common on west coast.

Global Range Code

Global Range Description

>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)

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