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Limosa fedoa Linnaeus, 1758

Aguja canela, Marbled Godwit

Limosa fedoa Linnaeus, 1758, Genovesa Island, Galapagos. Photo: Paul McFarling, CDF, 2002.
Limosa fedoa Linnaeus, 1758, Genovesa Island, Galapagos. Photo: Paul McFarling, CDF, 2002.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Aves

Order
Charadriiformes

Family
Scolopacidae

Genus
Limosa

Species
fedoa

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Vagrant

Status

Least concern

Distribution

Distribution: At Puerto Villamil, Isabela, from 6 January to end of March and in the beginning of August 1971 (Harris 1973); one at Tortuga Bay, Santa Cruz, 28 October 1997 seen by Josefina Arévalo (CDRS archives); one in October 2002 on Genovesa (Thalia Grant)

References

  • Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.
  • Harris, M.P. (1973) The Galápagos avifauna. Condor 75(3): 265-278.
  • Lévêque, R. Bowman, R.I. & Billeb, S.L.. (1966) Migrants in the Galapagos area. Condor 68(1): 81-101.
  • Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Limosa fedoa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5111. Accessed 6 May 2026.