Habitat in Alabama
Sounds, bays and tidal flats
Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes. NatureServe
- Plants
- 11
- Birds
- 87
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Heartleaf PlantainPlantago cordata
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Black MangroveAvicennia germinans
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Widgeon-grassRuppia maritima
- Horned PondweedZannichellia palustris
- Shoal-grassHalodule wrightii
- American WaterwortElatine americana
- Carolina GrasswortLilaeopsis carolinensis
- Turtle GrassThalassia testudinum
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 87
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Reddish EgretEgretta rufescens
- RedheadAythya americana
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Royal TernThalasseus maximus
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- Western Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus nivosus
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- WilletTringa semipalmata
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
Sources
- NatureServe, ecological systems of the United States habitat description
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat text phone app
- NC Parks species accounts
- USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (reviewed notes)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001)
- NatureServe Explorer ecological systems (CC BY 4.0)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.