Bird
Marbled Godwit
Limosa fedoa
A winter visitor to Virginia, found in 29 of 133 counties and cities and 3 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 29 of 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 29 of 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 3
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.


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 Virginia.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
Seasons in Virginia
- Winter: does not nest here, in 29 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 34
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Widgeon-grassRuppia maritima
- Dwarf ArrowheadSagittaria subulata
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Prairie CordgrassSpartina pectinata
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Common ReedPhragmites australis
- Creeping BentgrassAgrostis stolonifera
- Hair FescueFestuca filiformis
- ChinaberryMelia azedarach
- Chinese Tallow-treeTriadica sebifera
Wildlife 154
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- 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
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
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)



























