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

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.

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
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.
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.
Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
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.
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.
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.
Seasons in Alabama
- Summer: nests here, in 2 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 175
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Asclepias viridulaAsclepias viridula
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Sweetbay MagnoliaMagnolia virginiana
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarum var. amarulum
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSporobolus pumilus
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- Ceratiola ericoidesCeratiola ericoides
- Woody GoldenrodChrysoma pauciflosculosa
- Godfrey's Golden AsterChrysopsis godfreyi
- False RosemaryConradina canescens
- American BeechFagus grandifolia
- Littleleaf MilkpeaGalactia microphylla
- Largeleaf PennywortHydrocotyle bonariensis
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Southern MagnoliaMagnolia grandiflora
- Swamp TupeloNyssa biflora
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
Wildlife 252
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Gray Kingbird Brackish or salt water only
- 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)









































