Bird
Little Gull
Hydrocoloeus minutus
A winter visitor to Alabama, found in 2 of 67 counties and 7 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 7

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 7
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 7
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.
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.
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.
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 (39)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
- Louisiana Beach Winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter, only within 120 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter, only within 120 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole 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
- Winter: does not nest here, in 2 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 155
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Longleaf PinePinus palustris
- Yellow Fringeless OrchidPlatanthera integra
- Rush-featherlingPleea tenuifolia
- Tall JointweedPolygonella gracilis
- Rhexia parvifloraRhexia parviflora
- Large BeaksedgeRhynchospora macra
- Feather-bristle BeaksedgeRhynchospora oligantha
- Ruellia noctifloraRuellia noctiflora
- Yellow PitcherplantSarracenia flava
- Whitetop PitcherplantSarracenia leucophylla
- Sarracenia psittacinaSarracenia psittacina
- Gulf BluestemSchizachyrium maritimum
- Shoreline Sea-purslaneSesuvium portulacastrum
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSporobolus pumilus
- Savannah AsterSymphyotrichum chapmanii
- Sea OatsUniola paniculata
- Quillwort Yellow Eyed GrassXyris isoetifolia
- Harper's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris scabrifolia
- Drummonds Red MapleAcer drummondii
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Scaleleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis aphylla
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- Narrowleaf BluestemAndropogon perangustatus
Wildlife 222
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American CootFulica americana
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
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 Little Gull Slow streams 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)





































