American Avocet Images and Information:
Recurvirostra americana
- American Avocets are large, graceful shorebirds with long, upturned black bills, black and white plumage with rusty or white heads. The black plumage can also look brownish.
- American Avocets breed from interior Washington to British Columbia east to Minnesota and south to California and Texas. They winter along the Gulf coast, the Atlantic Coast of Florida, the Caribbean and the Pacific coast of California
- Their preferred breeding habitat includes freshwater marshes, shallow, marshy lakes, interior saline lakes and brackish water along the coasts.
- American Avocets eat marine invertebrates.
- American Avocets lay 3 to 4 eggs which take 22 to 29 days to hatch, both sexes incubate. They are monogamous.
- American Avocets can live up to 15 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my American Avocet photos.
Flock of American Avocets at Farmington Bay
Title: Flock of American Avocets at Farmington Bay
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/23/2024
American Avocet flock resting at Farmington Bay
Title: American Avocet flock resting at Farmington Bay
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/23/2024
Springtime American Avocet portrait
Title: Springtime American Avocet portrait
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/26/2023
Spring American Avocets in breeding plumage
Title: Spring American Avocets in breeding plumage
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/31/2021
Spring American Avocets
Title: Spring American Avocets
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/31/2021
American Avocet chick stretching
Title: American Avocet chick stretching
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/12/2019
American Avocet chick with a midge
Title: American Avocet chick with a midge
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/12/2019
American Avocet chick foraging in water
Title: American Avocet chick foraging in water
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/12/2019
Male American Avocet guarding his chicks
Title: Male American Avocet guarding his chicks
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/23/2019
Foraging American Avocet chick
Title: Foraging American Avocet chick
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/23/2019
Male American Avocet watching over his mate
Title: Male American Avocet watching over his mate
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/2/2019
American Avocet walking in shallow water in spring
Title: American Avocet walking in shallow water in spring
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/22/2018
Male American Avocet at the edge of a pond
Title: Male American Avocet at the edge of a pond
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/22/2018
American Avocet female defecating
Title: American Avocet female defecating
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/22/2018
American Avocet male striding through shallow water
Title: American Avocet male striding through shallow water
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/22/2018
Foraging American Avocet in breeding plumage
Title: Foraging American Avocet in breeding plumage
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/22/2018
Foraging male American Avocet at Bear River MBR
Title: Foraging male American Avocet at Bear River MBR
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/22/2018
American Avocet foraging in shallow water
Title: American Avocet foraging in shallow water
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/4/2017
American Avocet with reflections of rushes in the background
Title: American Avocet with reflections of rushes in the background
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/4/2017
American Avocet with water in the background
Title: American Avocet with water in the background
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/4/2017