Bird
Bobolink
Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Passes through Alabama on migration. Found in all 67 counties, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 3
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (6)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
Seasons in Alabama
- Migratory: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 225
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
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 Bobolink Elevation 18 to 2,500 m. Avoids forest interior
- 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)