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Blue-headed Vireo

Vireo solitarius

Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 7 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
7
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Alabama 7

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

1 of 7

Swamps

Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp
WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded 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.

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

Winter

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.

Winter

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

SummerWinterAllegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood; Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerWinterSouth-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

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.

SummerWinterDeciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (49)

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

  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Winter.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer and winter.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter.
  • Mississippi River Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Red River Large Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 32 of 67 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in 44 of 67 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 12 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 244

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

Wildlife 245

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.

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