Bird
Le Conte's Sparrow
Ammodramus leconteii
A winter visitor to Alabama, found in all 67 counties and 5 habitats.
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 5

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 5
- Habitat models
- 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.
Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
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 (41)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Winter.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Florida Dry Prairie 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.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland 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.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
Seasons in Alabama
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 10 of 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 65 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 153
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Agalinis filicaulisAgalinis filicaulis
- Pinewoods BluestemAndropogon arctatus
- Aristida beyrichianaAristida beyrichiana
- Asclepias viridulaAsclepias viridula
- Carphephorus pseudoliatrisCarphephorus pseudoliatris
- LeConte's ThistleCirsium lecontei
- Toothache GrassCtenium aromaticum
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Naked Stem Witch GrassDichanthelium nudicaule
- Drosera tracyiDrosera tracyi
- Eurybia eryngiifoliaEurybia eryngiifolia
- Largeleaf PennywortHydrocotyle bonariensis
- Peelbark St. John's-wortHypericum fasciculatum
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Pineland BogbuttonsLachnocaulon digynum
- Panhandle LilyLilium iridollae
- PondberryLindera melissifolia
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarum var. amarulum
- Largeleaf Grass-of-ParnassusParnassia grandifolia
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
- Pinguicula planifoliaPinguicula planifolia
- Longleaf PinePinus palustris
Wildlife 240
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglecta
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- WilletTringa semipalmata
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-throated VireoVireo flavifrons
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
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 Le Conte's Sparrow
- 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)


































