Bird

Gray Kingbird

Tyrannus dominicensis

A summer resident that nests in Alabama. Found in 2 of 67 counties, across 10 habitats.

Here: Summer
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 2 of 67 counties
Habitats: 10

Adult Gray Kingbird, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) Daniel Patterson, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 222651261. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Summer
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 2 of 67 counties
Habitats: 10
Habitat models: Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Alabama 10

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

1 of 10

SummerOpen 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.

SummerUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland; Atlantic 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 Hydric Hammock

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

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 Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime 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

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; Disturbed, Non-specific

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.

SummerOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Other habitats in its models (22)

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

Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
Barren Land Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
Southeast Florida Beach Summer.
South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer.
Southwest Florida Beach Summer.
South Florida Hardwood Hammock Summer.
Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer.
Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer.
South Florida Pine Rockland Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer.
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer.
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.