The Marbled Godwit is the largest North American godwit, a big, tawny-brown shorebird with a very long, slightly upturned bill tipped with pink at the base. It breeds on the northern Great Plains and winters on both coasts. The warm, rusty-cinnamon wing color is distinctive in flight. It probes deeply into mud for buried invertebrates.
Habitat
Prairie grasslands and ponds when breeding; coastal mudflats and beaches in winter
Diet
Marine invertebrates, earthworms, and tubers probed from soft substrate
How common
Uncommon
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