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Mottled Duck

Anas fulvigula

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Year-round in Alabama, breeding, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 10 habitats found here.

Seasons here
Year-round
Breeding
Breeding
Range
2 of 67 counties
Habitats
10

At a glance

Group
Birds
Seasons in Alabama
Year-round
Breeding
Breeding
Counties in known range
2 of 67
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

Southeast habitat models (USGS, 2001 land cover). The bird is not in every place a habitat occurs. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models Year-round model

Habitats in Alabama 10

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. Shared habitat, not food.

1 of 10

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
Year-roundOpen Water (Fresh)Regional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

Swamps

Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp
Year-roundSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded SwampRegional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal swamps, Florida to Virginia; state not identified, a neighboring state.Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

Year-roundUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

Year-roundSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

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.

Year-round

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.

Year-round

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

Year-roundMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

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.

Year-roundOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Year-round. Only within 120 m of water, for banks or other nest sitesCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay
Other habitats in its models (25)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.

  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round. Only within 120 m of water, for banks or other nest sites
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round. Next to its main habitat. Only within 120 m of water, for banks or other nest sites
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Year-round
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Year-round
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Year-round
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Year-round
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Year-round
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Year-round
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Year-round
  • Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Year-round
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Year-round
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Year-round
  • Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Year-round

Habitat names: NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0.

Seasons in Alabama

Modeled range from USGS maps (2001), by watershed. Not sighting records. Migratory gives no dates. USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps

  • Year-round. Breeding and nonbreeding. Range includes 2 of 67 counties

Also found in this habitat

Plants 189

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 253

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources