American Avocet
Recurvirostra americana
Summary 4
The American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae.
Distribution 5
Global Range: (>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)) BREEDING: Northwest Territories (Kuyt and Johns 1992), southeastern British Columbia, central Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, southwestern Manitoba, southwestern Ontario, and Minnesota south locally to southern California, central Nevada, northern Utah, south-central Colorado, southern New Mexico, and San Luis Potosi, east to central Kansas and coastal Texas. Nonbreeders often in usual winter range in summer. NON-BREEDING: from California and southern Texas south through Mexico, casually to Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and Costa Rica, locally in southern Florida.
Habitat 6
American avocets are numerous in mudflats, ponds, wetlands, and freshwater marshes and swamps. They are also common in lakes, rocky/sandy seashores, bay/coastal islands, and tidal flats.
Habitat Regions: temperate ; tropical ; terrestrial
Aquatic Biomes: lakes and ponds; coastal ; brackish water
Wetlands: marsh ; swamp
Other Habitat Features: estuarine
Sources and Credits
- (c) Larry Meade, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/34323709@N07/3608339491/
- (c) C.V. Vick, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/45153605@N00/2516691315
- (c) Blake Matheson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/34328261@N02/3550176017/
- Adapted by Jaishneel Raj from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurvirostra_americana
- (c) NatureServe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/14505535
- (c) The Regents of the University of Michigan and its licensors, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/18670568
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