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Marbled Godwit

Limosa fedoa

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in 13 of 82 counties and 3 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
13 of 82 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
13 of 82 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Mississippi 3

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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 Mississippi. Those recorded in Mississippi first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (16)
  • 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.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Louisiana Beach 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.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
Northeast (1)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Land cover and other classes (1)
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 13 of 82 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Mississippi, 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 123

Plants 118

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Mississippi

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Birds 88

Plants 30

All of coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated) in Mississippi

Salt and brackish marshes

Birds 93

Plants 50

All of salt and brackish marshes in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources