Bird

Chimney Swift

Chaetura pelagica

A summer resident that nests in Alabama. Found in all 67 counties, across 24 habitats.

Here: Summer
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 67 counties
Habitats: 24

Adult Chimney Swift, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) Matt Felperin, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 652005101. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Summer
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 67 counties
Habitats: 24
Habitat models: Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Alabama 24

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

1 of 24

SummerSouthern Interior Calcareous Cliff; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff; Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and BarrensLimestone cedar glade. Shown: Cedar Glade Number 5, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Catoosa County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Cedar Glade Number 5, Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP, Catoosa County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

SummerSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin 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 Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

SummerSouthern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock

Dry forests and woodlands

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

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest; Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood; Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier; Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest; Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; South-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; East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain

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.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods; South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest; Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest

Moist forests

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

SummerSouthern Piedmont Mesic Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest; South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Cumberland Riverscour; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern Piedmont CliffNamed place / source context. Shown: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Georgia, a neighboring state.Trees and rocks on Little Kennesaw Mountain., Unidentified in HFC record, undated. Public domain. Source record.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea ModifierRegional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern Interior Acid Cliff; Southern Appalachian Granitic DomeSolution pits on granite. Shown: Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, DeKalb County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Solution pits, Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, DeKalb County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

SummerBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and WoodlandLimestone prairie. Shown: Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

SummerBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerBeside its main habitat.Developed, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Mississippi 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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation

Other habitats in its models (185)

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

Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
Developed, High Intensity Summer.
Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer.
Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer, beside its main habitat.
Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Louisiana Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southeast Florida Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southwest Florida Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Appalachian Rocky Summit Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer.
South Florida Hardwood Hammock Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer.
East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer.
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
South Florida Pine Rockland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer.
Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer.
Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer.
Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Oak Barrens Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Colorado Plateau Sand Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
Florida Dry Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer, beside its main habitat.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer, beside its main habitat.
Recently Burned Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Recently Burned Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer, beside its main habitat.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer, beside its main habitat.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer.
South Florida Bayhead Swamp Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer.
South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer, beside its main habitat.
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer.
South Florida Cypress Dome Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer.
Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.