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Marbled Godwit

Limosa fedoa

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Winter in Alabama, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 3 habitats found here.

Seasons here
Winter
Breeding
Nonbreeding
Range
7 of 67 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Seasons in Alabama
Winter
Breeding
Nonbreeding
Counties in known range
7 of 67
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

Southeast habitat models (USGS, 2001 land cover). The bird is not in every place a habitat occurs. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models Winter model

Habitats in Alabama 3

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. Shared habitat, not food.

1 of 3

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

Winter

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh
Other habitats in its models (18)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.

  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter
  • Louisiana Beach Winter
  • Southeast Florida Beach Winter
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter
  • Southwest Florida Beach Winter
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter

Model settings

Settings in the USGS model, not field measurements.

Habitat names: NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0.

Seasons in Alabama

Modeled range from USGS maps (2001), by watershed. Not sighting records. Migratory gives no dates. USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps

  • Winter. Nonbreeding. Range includes 7 of 67 counties

Also found in this habitat

Plants 39

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 161

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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