They generally forage in shallow water with little vegetation to hide them, and they nest in areas almost lacking vegetation altogether. They breed around wetlands in dry parts of interior North America, but during the winter, many of them head to coastal lagoons, salt ponds, and mudflats.
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Habitat. Beaches, flats, shallow lakes, prairie ponds. Widespread on shallow waters and extensive mudflats, both along coast and in the interior. Typically ...
The American avocet tends to prefer habitats with fine sediments for foraging. In the winter, it feeds extensively on brine shrimp. Usually, this entails the ...
Habitat. Found in wetlands including shallow fresh and saltwater wetlands, salt ponds, impoundments, and evaporation ponds. Forages in open water generally ...
American avocets prefer wide open areas with little vegetation, like shallow fresh and saltwater wetlands, mudflats, tidal lagoons, rice fields, flooded ...
American avocets commonly are found on mudflats, in saline lakes, in fresh water and saltwater marshes and on coastal bays. They may be found in migration from ...
The American Avocet breeds in both fresh and salt water habitats throughout western North America, often using ephemeral wetlands in otherwise arid regions.
American avocets are found in western North America from March through October and in coastal California, southern Texas, Florida, Louisiana and south to ...
American Avocets occupy shallow freshwater habitat in open country. They typically feed in open water 10-20 centimeters deep, but they also swim regularly in ...
American Avocets are most commonly seen using exposed, sparsely vegetated salt flats, sandbars, peninsulas, mudflats, or islands with beaches.
