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Marbled Godwit

Limosa fedoa ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: SCOLOPACIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

A large shorebird with a long, upturned bill, the Marbled Godwit breeds in the center of the continent and winters along the coasts. It breeds in the northern prairies, amongst grasslands and scattered wetlands.

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Calls

  • Calls
    Recorded by William W. H. Gunn
  • Call of two birds during display
    Recorded by William W. H. Gunn
    Manitoba, Canada May 1961
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call nasal, slightly crowing or laughing "ah, ha" or "ahk."

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