American Avocet Images and Information:
Recurvirostra americana
- American Avocets are large, graceful shorebirds with long, upturned black bills, black and white plumage with rusty or white heads. The black plumage can also look brownish.
- American Avocets breed from interior Washington to British Columbia east to Minnesota and south to California and Texas. They winter along the Gulf coast, the Atlantic Coast of Florida, the Caribbean and the Pacific coast of California
- Their preferred breeding habitat includes freshwater marshes, shallow, marshy lakes, interior saline lakes and brackish water along the coasts.
- American Avocets eat marine invertebrates.
- American Avocets lay 3 to 4 eggs which take 22 to 29 days to hatch, both sexes incubate. They are monogamous.
- American Avocets can live up to 15 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my American Avocet photos.
American Avocet foraging in a shallow pond
Title: American Avocet foraging in a shallow pond
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2011
American Avocet in the grasses
Title: American Avocet in the grasses
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2011
American Avocet at the edge of the marsh
Title: American Avocet at the edge of the marsh
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2011
Non-breeding adult American Avocet
Title: Non-breeding adult American Avocet
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/5/2010
American Avocet with head on profile view
Title: American Avocet with head on profile view
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2010
American Avocet feeding on something tiny
Title: American Avocet feeding on something tiny
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2010
American Avocet in flight
Title: American Avocet in flight
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/20/2010
American Avocets yearly sequel
Title: American Avocets yearly sequel
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 3/28/2010
American Avocet in nonbreeding plumage
Title: American Avocet in nonbreeding plumage
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/8/2009
American Avocet in breeding plumage and calm water
Title: American Avocet in breeding plumage and calm water
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/29/2009
Avocet at Bear River
Title: Avocet at Bear River
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/29/2009
American Avocets at rest
Title: American Avocets at rest
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 7/28/2008