Bird
Bonaparte's Gull
Chroicocephalus philadelphia
A winter visitor to Alabama, found in all 67 counties and 6 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 6

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 6
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 6
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
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.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.
Other habitats in its models (38)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
- Louisiana Beach Winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- 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.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
Seasons in Alabama
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 56
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarum var. amarulum
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSporobolus pumilus
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Gulf Coast Sea RocketCakile constricta
- Shoreline SedgeCarex hyalinolepis
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Woody GoldenrodChrysoma pauciflosculosa
- Erectleaf WitchgrassDichanthelium erectifolium
- Seashore SaltgrassDistichlis spicata
- Slim SpikerushEleocharis elongata
- Florida ThoroughwortEupatorium anomalum
- Fimbristylis carolinianaFimbristylis caroliniana
- Fimbristylis castaneaFimbristylis castanea
- Fuirena longaFuirena longa
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Largeleaf PennywortHydrocotyle bonariensis
- MaidencaneHymenachne hemitomon
Wildlife 218
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Western Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus nivosus
- Wilson's PloverCharadrius wilsonia
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Yellow RailCoturnicops noveboracensis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Bonaparte's Gull
- 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)





































