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Common Loon

Gavia immer

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Migratory and winter in Alabama, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 5 habitats found here.

Seasons here
Migratory and winter
Breeding
Nonbreeding
Range
67 of 67 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Seasons in Alabama
Migratory and winter
Breeding
Nonbreeding
Counties in known range
67 of 67
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

Southeast habitat models (USGS, 2001 land cover). The bird is not in every place a habitat occurs. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models Winter model

Habitats in Alabama 5

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. Shared habitat, not food.

1 of 5

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
WinterOpen Water (Fresh)Regional / 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland

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

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

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.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (18)

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

  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter
  • Southeast Florida Beach Winter
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter
  • Southwest Florida Beach Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter
  • Southwest Florida 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 Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter

Model settings

Settings in the USGS model, not field measurements.

Habitat names: NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0.

Seasons in Alabama

Modeled range from USGS maps (2001), by watershed. Not sighting records. Migratory gives no dates. USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps

  • Migratory. Nonbreeding. Range includes 67 of 67 counties
  • Winter. Nonbreeding. Range includes 2 of 67 counties

Also found in this habitat

Plants 32

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

Wildlife 218

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.

Sources