First records of Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) in Brazil

• Main Authors: Kerstin Kober, Roberta Kelley, Pinheiro Soares, Antonio Augusto, Ferreira Rodrigues
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Key woRds; Limosa fedoa; geographical distribution; winter range; Brazil. The Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa is a relatively large migra- tory shorebird. It breeds in th; Pacific; Alaska; James Bay
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.518.9717; http://www.ararajuba.org.br/sbo/ararajuba/artigos/Volume144/ara144cbro3.pdf

et al. 1997). Only two small and isolated breeding popula-tions exist along the coast of James Bay, Ontario and Quebec, and on the Alaska Peninsula (Letourneau and Morrier 1996, Andres and Browne 1998). Marbled Godwits exhibit relati-vely short to long-distance migrations and winter regularly on the Pacific Coast between British Columbia (Campbell et