Marbled Godwit Images, Facts and Information:
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- Marbled Godwits are large shorebirds with pinkish based, long slightly upturned bills, long legs are are buff brown all over.
- Marbled Godwits are migratory. They spend winters on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts of North and Central America. The breed in grasslands in a few northern U.S. States and a few areas of Canada.
- Marbled Godwits consume insects, mollusks, worms and crustaceans.
- Marbled Godwit habitats include grasslands for breeding, marshes and flooded plains for migration and during the winter they are found on beaches, mudflats and saltwater marshes.
- Marbled Godwits lay 3 to 5 eggs which hatch in 21 to 23 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous. The female leaves on migration earlier than the male leaving him to finish rearing their young.
- A group of Marbled Godwits can be called a “pantheon”, “omniscience” or a “prayer” of godwits.
- Marbled Godwits can live up to 29 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Marbled Godwit photos.
Marbled Godwit and the Gulf of Mexico
Title: Marbled Godwit and the Gulf of Mexico
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, FL
Date: 6/6/2008
Marbled Godwit scratching
Title: Marbled Godwit scratching
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/6/2008
A Marbled Godwit feeding on the shore of the Gulf
Title: A Marbled Godwit feeding on the shore of the Gulf
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/6/2008
Marbled Godwit trying to sneak by
Title: Marbled Godwit trying to sneak by
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/11/2008
Marbled Godwit and shadow
Title: Marbled Godwit and shadow
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/11/2008
Marbled Godwit feeding early in the morning
Title: Marbled Godwit feeding early in the morning
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
A Marbled Godwit with an itch
Title: A Marbled Godwit with an itch
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
Marbled Godwit preening in a tidal lagoon
Title: Marbled Godwit preening in a tidal lagoon
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
A pair of Marbled Godwits in early morning light
Title: A pair of Marbled Godwits in early morning light
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
Resting Marbled Godwit
Title: Resting Marbled Godwit
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
Preening Marbled Godwit
Title: Preening Marbled Godwit
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
Marbled Godwit standing out from the crowd
Title: Marbled Godwit standing out from the crowd
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
Foraging Marbled Godwit
Title: Foraging Marbled Godwit
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
Marbled Godwit in a tidal pool
Title: Marbled Godwit in a tidal pool
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
A Graceful Marbled Godwit
Title: A Graceful Marbled Godwit
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
Marbled Godwit and Dowitcher friends
Title: Marbled Godwit and Dowitcher friends
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 8/12/2007