Limosa fedoa primarily inhabit North American prairie wetlands during the breeding season, where they feed on invertebrates, plant material and small fish, migrating to coastal mudflats, estuaries and sandy beaches for the non-breeding season where they predominately eat worms, bivalves and crustaceans (Gratto-Trevor 2020). A proportion of the population remains in non-breeding areas each year.

Most breed in the northern grasslands (prairie potholes region) of the United States of America (USA) and southern Canada, with small, isolated populations along coast of James Bay and on the Alaska Peninsula. Those breeding in Alaska are recognised as a separate subspecies, L. f. beringiae (Gratto-Trevor 2020), while the James Bay population are considered to belong to the nominate subpopulation. All individuals migrate from breeding areas to winter coastally in North and Central America, with greatest concentrations in central to southern California and Mexico but birds found south to Panama (Gratto-Trevor 2020) and less regularly in Ecuador and northern Peru (Fink et al. 2023). The breeding range is more restricted than the non-breeding and is used for the extent of occurrence: this still exceeds 4 million square kilometres. However, given the estimated rates of population reduction it is inferred that the Area of Occupancy is declining, although uncertainty over the drivers of decline means that it is not possibly to infer that the area, extent or quality of habitat is declining.

Conservation Actions Underway
No targeted actions known, however protected by the U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Conservation Actions Proposed
Continue to monitor population trends. Investigate threats. Protect and manage breeding habitat, as well as major coastal staging and wintering sites.