Bird
Killdeer
Charadrius vociferus
Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 5 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 5

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 5
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 5
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
Other habitats in its models (89)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer and winter.
- Barren Land Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Summer.
- Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter.
- Great Lakes Dune Summer.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
- Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer.
- Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Summer.
- North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Summer.
- Western Great Plains Badland Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Badland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Shale Badland Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Ash and Tuff Badland Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer.
- North Pacific Serpentine Barren Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Playa Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
- North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Pavement Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Volcanic Rockland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Fell-Field Summer.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer.
- Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub Steppe Summer.
- Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Dry Tundra Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer.
- North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Dry Grassland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Summer.
- North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
- Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
- Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer.
- Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Summer.
- California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer.
- North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Summer.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
- Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
Seasons in Alabama
- Year-round: nests here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 152
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarum var. amarulum
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSporobolus pumilus
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Woody GoldenrodChrysoma pauciflosculosa
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Largeleaf PennywortHydrocotyle bonariensis
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
- Tall JointweedPolygonella gracilis
- Sand Live OakQuercus geminata
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Starrush Whitetop SedgeRhynchospora colorata
- Gulf BluestemSchizachyrium maritimum
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Shoreline Sea-purslaneSesuvium portulacastrum
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Sea OatsUniola paniculata
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
Wildlife 250
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglecta
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- Western Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus nivosus
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- Yellow-throated VireoVireo flavifrons
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 Killdeer
- 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)
























