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

Adult Marbled Godwit, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) Nicole, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 164345535. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

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.

1 of 2

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Upper Texas Coast Beach; Louisiana Beach

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

Other habitats in its models (19)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (17)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.

Northeast (1)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.

Land cover and other classes (1)

Unconsolidated Shore Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

Winter: does not nest here, in 35 of 64 parishes.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.