Alder Flycatcher in Alabama

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.

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SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Cumberland Riverscour; South-Central Interior Small Stream and RiparianWinslow Homer, Blue Spring, Florida (1890): clear blue spring water under overhanging palms. Shown: Blue Spring, Florida (Winslow Homer, 1890; National Gallery of Art), a neighboring state.Blue Spring, Florida, Winslow Homer, 1890. Public domain. Source record.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems; Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression SwampFlorida, Sunset on the Ocklawaha (1899): a dark swamp-lined river at sunset, with cypress and hardwoods crowding both banks. Shown: Ocklawaha River, Florida, a neighboring state.Florida, Sunset on the Ocklawaha, Detroit Photographic Co. (chromolithograph), 1899. Public domain. Source record.

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

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerUtility Swath - Herbaceous

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. Those recorded in Alabama first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (8)

Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.

Northeast (7)

Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.

Midwest (3)

Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest 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.

Land cover and other classes (15)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
Recently Burned Summer.
Recently Burned Forest Summer.
Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
Recently Logged Areas Summer.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

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

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Alabama, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.