Bird
Cooper's Hawk
Accipiter cooperii
Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 23 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 23

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 23
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 23
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops


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.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
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.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
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.



Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
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.
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
Other habitats in its models (328)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Dune Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southwestern Great Plains Canyon Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Summer.
- Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer and winter.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer.
- Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Mesic Canyon Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Maritime Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Aspen-Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer and winter.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna Summer.
- Central and Southern California Mixed Evergreen Woodland Summer.
- Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Western Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Subalpine Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Woodland and Parkland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Foothill Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Dry-Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Boreal Jack Pine-Black Spruce Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Barrens Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Laurentian Jack Pine-Red Pine Forest Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Poor-Site Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer and winter.
- East Cascades Oak-Ponderosa Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Acadian-Appalachian Montane Spruce-Fir Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Cascades Mesic Montane Mixed-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Northern California Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine Dwarf-Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine Tundra/Fell-field/Dwarf-shrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Acadian-Appalachian Alpine Tundra Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Avalanche Chute Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Sandhill Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Foothill Conifer Wooded Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Basin Semi-Desert Chaparral Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern and Central California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Laurentian Pine-Oak Barrens Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Savanna Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Great Lakes Alvar Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Wyoming Basins Dwarf Sagebrush Shrubland and Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Colorado Plateau Sand Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northwestern Great Plains Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Montane-Foothill Deciduous Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Deciduous Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine Fell-Field Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Upper Montane Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- South Texas Lomas Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Llano Uplift Acidic Forest, Woodland and Glade Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Chained Pinyon-Juniper Areas Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Summer.
- South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer and winter.
- Northern Pacific Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
- Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Lowland Summer.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Summer and winter.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
- Tamaulipan Floodplain Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Wash Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Riparian Summer.
- Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Woodland Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North American Warm Desert Riparian Mesquite Bosque Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
- Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Seasons in Alabama
- Year-round: nests here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 1119
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- TuliptreeLiriodendron tulipifera
- Poison-ivyToxicodendron radicans
- White AshFraxinus americana
- White OakQuercus alba
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- American BeechFagus grandifolia
- Southern Red OakQuercus falcata
- Flowering DogwoodCornus florida
- Water OakQuercus nigra
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Shagbark HickoryCarya ovata
- Mockernut HickoryCarya tomentosa
- Mountain LaurelKalmia latifolia
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- BlackgumNyssa sylvatica
- Virginia CreeperParthenocissus quinquefolia
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- Black OakQuercus velutina
- Florida MapleAcer floridanum
- Eastern RedbudCercis canadensis
- Hairy Bush HoneysuckleDiervilla rivularis
Wildlife 255
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
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 Cooper's Hawk
- 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)















































