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Marbled Godwit

The Red Earth Cree are reported to have hunted and consumed Marbled Godwit [1].

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1. Meyer D: Appendix I: Plants, Animals and Climate; Appendix IV: Subsistence-Settlement Patterns. In: The Red Earth Crees, 1860-1960. Volume 1st edition, edn.: National Musem of Man Mercury Series; 1985: 175-185-200-223.

The Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) is a large shorebird with a very long, slightly up-curved bill. They are part of a large family of shorebirds including sandpipers, snipes, whimbrels, phalaropes, yellowlegs, woodcocks, and dowitchers, but differ from most shorebirds in having a prairie breeding range (southern portions of Canadian prairie provinces and the north-central United States) and short migrations. Marbled Godwits weigh between 285 and 450 g, are mottled brown with long legs, and use their long, slightly upcurved bill to feed on aquatic invertebrates and terrestrial insects during breeding and plant tubers during migration.

Reference

Gratto-Trevor CL: Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa). In: The Birds of North America Online. Edited by Poole A. Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; 2000.

Distribution maps provided below, unless otherwise stated, were obtained from Birds of North America Online http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/, maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and all pictures provided below were obtained from Encyclopedia of Life http://www.eol.org.

Marbled Godwit
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Photographer: Dick Daniels (http://carolinabirds.org/)

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