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Alder Flycatcher

Empidonax alnorum

Passes through Alabama on migration. Found in 49 of 67 counties, across 8 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
49 of 67 counties
Habitats
8

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
49 of 67 counties
Habitats
8
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Alabama 8

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 8

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Swamps

Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp
SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems; Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression SwampRegional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal swamps, Florida to Virginia; state not identified, a neighboring state.Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Summer

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerSouth-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerUtility Swath - Herbaceous

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Cumberland Riverscour; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

SummerBeside its main habitat.South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods
Other habitats in its models (33)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.

  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 49 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 476

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 242

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources