Bird
Lapland Longspur
Calcarius lapponicus
A winter visitor to Alabama, found in all 67 counties and 4 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 4
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
Other habitats in its models (36)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Winter.
- Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Winter.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
- Recently Burned Winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
Seasons in Alabama
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 107
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Longleaf PinePinus palustris
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Agalinis filicaulisAgalinis filicaulis
- Nodding OnionAllium cernuum
- Piedmont Indigo-bushAmorpha schwerinii
- Pinewoods BluestemAndropogon arctatus
- Elliotts BluestemAndropogon gyrans
- Aristida beyrichianaAristida beyrichiana
- Asclepias viridulaAsclepias viridula
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Rock SpikemossBryodesma rupestre
- Pennsylvania SedgeCarex pensylvanica
- Carphephorus pseudoliatrisCarphephorus pseudoliatris
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- Common HackberryCeltis occidentalis
- Dwarf HackberryCeltis tenuifolia
- Ceratiola ericoidesCeratiola ericoides
- Eastern RedbudCercis canadensis
- Woody GoldenrodChrysoma pauciflosculosa
- Godfrey's Golden AsterChrysopsis godfreyi
- LeConte's ThistleCirsium lecontei
- Coelorachis tuberculosaCoelorachis tuberculosa
Wildlife 240
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
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 Lapland Longspur
- 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)







































