Bird

Eastern Kingbird

Tyrannus tyrannus

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

Male Eastern Kingbird, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Daniel S. Katz, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 517306327. 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.

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SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); 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.

SummerSouthern 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.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff; Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland; 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 Appalachian Granitic Dome; Cumberland Sandstone Glade and BarrensSolution 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.

SummerEast 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.

SummerSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome; Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression 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 dunes and beaches

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

SummerAtlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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; Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

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

SummerSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

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.

Summer

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; Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine 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

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest

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

Pine savannas

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

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

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

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.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation

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.

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Brackish/Salt)

Other habitats in its models (185)

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

Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
Barren Land 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.
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.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer.
Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock 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.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer.
Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer.
Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer.
Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime 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.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer.
Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer.
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.
Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens 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.
Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest 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.
Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer.
East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and 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.
Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer.
Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer.
Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer.
North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
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 Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
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.
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.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie 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.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer, beside its main habitat.
Recently Logged Areas Summer.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
Recently Burned Forest Summer.
Recently Burned Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
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.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer.
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer.
South Florida Bayhead Swamp Summer.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
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.
Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer.
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.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer.
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain 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.
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.