Bird
Black Tern
Chlidonias niger
Passes through Alabama on migration. Found in all 67 counties, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 2

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 2
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
1 of 2

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.
Other habitats in its models (1)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
Seasons in Alabama
- Migratory: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 196
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Black Tern Elevation up to 1,540 m
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)
























