Bird
Marbled Godwit
Limosa fedoa
A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 35 of 64 parishes and 2 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 35 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 2

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 35 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 2
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
Other habitats in its models (19)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation 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.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain 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.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Winter: does not nest here, in 35 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 11
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Beach Morning-gloryIpomoea imperati
- Ipomoea pes-capraeIpomoea pes-caprae
- Beach Evening-primroseOenothera drummondii
- Bitter PanicgrassPanicum amarum
- Gulfdune PaspalumPaspalum monostachyum
- Shoreline Sea-purslaneSesuvium portulacastrum
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Coastal SandspurCenchrus spinifex
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Gulf SearocketCakile geniculata
- Largeleaf PennywortHydrocotyle bonariensis
Wildlife 165
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common LoonGavia immer
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Marbled Godwit Brackish or salt water only
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)






























