Jenjang dan burung perancah (Cranes & Waders)
Marbled Godwit
Limosa fedoa
- tidak umum
- 40 km/h
- Rentan
Long upturned bill probing mudflats for buried worms. Big, cinnamon, and content.
- Populasi
- ~270,000 mature individuals
- Habitat
- Breeds on northern Great Plains grasslands and prairie wetlands, nesting on the ground in short grass; winters on coastal shorelines, estuaries, tidal mudflats, marshes, and beaches
- Fakta menarik
- The Marbled Godwit's long, slightly upturned, two-toned pink-and-black bill lets it probe deep into mud for invertebrates, and during migration it switches almost exclusively to digging up plant tubers with the same tool.
- Sebaran
- Breeds mainly in the northern Great Plains of the north-central US and south-central Canada, with small disjunct populations in southwestern James Bay (Ontario) and on the Alaska Peninsula; winters along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of the US, Mexico, and Central America (south to Panama), concentrated in California and northwest Mexico
- Makanan
- Aquatic invertebrates — insects, marine worms, and crustaceans — probed from mud, sand, and shallow water with its long bill; also eats plant tubers (clipped with its upturned bill), especially during migration stopovers
- Ukuran
- 0,45 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,79 m
- Masa hidup
- 7 tahun
