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Northern Bobwhite

Colinus virginianus

Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 13 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
13

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
13
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Alabama 13

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 13

Coastal dunes and beaches

White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola
Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal GrasslandGeorge Catlin, White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola (1834-35): high white dunes with scattered clumps of dune plants above the Gulf. Shown: Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola, Florida, a neighboring state.White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola, George Catlin (1796-1872), 1834-1835. Public domain. Source record.

Pine flatwoods

Georgia Pines
Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine FlatwoodsGeorge Inness, Georgia Pines (1890): tall, straight pines over an open, grassy floor in a south Georgia pine woods. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Georgia pine woods (George Inness, 1890; site not named), a neighboring state.Georgia Pines, George Inness (1825-1894), 1890. Public domain. Source record.

Pine savannas

Beautiful Savannah in the Pine Woods of Florida
Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet PrairieGeorge Catlin, Beautiful Savannah in the Pine Woods of Florida (1834-35): an open grassy savanna with a shallow pond, ringed by tall pines, with palmettos and red wildflowers. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Pine woods of Florida (George Catlin, 1834-35; Smithsonian American Art Museum), a neighboring state.Beautiful Savannah in the Pine Woods of Florida, George Catlin, 1834-1835. Public domain. Source record.

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

Year-roundSoutheastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest; Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.

Year-roundRidge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland; Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.

Year-roundCumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Coastal Plain hammocks

In the Jungle, Florida
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and HammockWinslow Homer, In the Jungle, Florida (1904): cabbage palms, saw palmetto and fallen trunks in a dense, shady hammock, with a wildcat in the branches. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Florida (Winslow Homer, In the Jungle, Florida, 1904), a neighboring state.In the Jungle, Florida, Winslow Homer, 1904. Public domain. Source record.

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (78)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama. Those recorded in Alabama first, the rest by region.

In Alabama 1

  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Year-round.
Elsewhere in the South (39)
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
Northeast (4)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Year-round.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Year-round.
Midwest (6)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (28)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 67 counties.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 516

Plant genera in its diet records (50)
  • Lespedeza 18 diet records. 11 native plants in Alabama
  • Croton 15 diet records. 10 native plants in Alabama
  • Sorghum 10 diet records. 0 native plants in Alabama
  • Galactia 9 diet records. 5 native plants in Alabama
  • Prunus 9 diet records. 8 native plants in Alabama
  • Glycine 8 diet records. 0 native plants in Alabama
  • Urochloa 8 diet records. 1 native plant in Alabama
  • Zea 8 diet records. 0 native plants in Alabama
  • Chamaecrista 7 diet records. 3 native plants in Alabama
  • Quercus Seeds. 7 diet records. 46 native plants in Alabama
  • Vigna 7 diet records. 1 native plant in Alabama
  • Geranium 6 diet records. 2 native plants in Alabama
  • Oxalis 6 diet records. 8 native plants in Alabama
  • Sassafras 6 diet records. 1 native plant in Alabama
  • Triticum 6 diet records. 0 native plants in Alabama
  • Ambrosia 5 diet records. 4 native plants in Alabama
  • Digitaria 5 diet records. 5 native plants in Alabama
  • Setaria 5 diet records. 3 native plants in Alabama
  • Panicum 4 diet records. 6 native plants in Alabama
  • Paspalum 4 diet records. 17 native plants in Alabama
  • Physalis Fruit. 4 diet records. 12 native plants in Alabama
  • Rhus 4 diet records. 4 native plants in Alabama
  • Vicia 4 diet records. 3 native plants in Alabama
  • Carex 3 diet records. 140 native plants in Alabama
  • Centrosema 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Alabama
  • Cyperus 3 diet records. 44 native plants in Alabama
  • Desmanthus 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Alabama
  • Diodia 3 diet records. 2 native plants in Alabama
  • Krigia 3 diet records. 4 native plants in Alabama
  • Liquidambar 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Alabama
  • Mimosa 3 diet records. 2 native plants in Alabama
  • Polygonum 3 diet records. 4 native plants in Alabama
  • Rubus 3 diet records. 7 native plants in Alabama
  • Sesbania 3 diet records. 3 native plants in Alabama
  • Zanthoxylum 3 diet records. 2 native plants in Alabama
  • Argemone 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Alabama
  • Celtis Fruit. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Alabama
  • Commelina 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Alabama
  • Descurainia 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Alabama
  • Desmodium 2 diet records. 19 native plants in Alabama
  • Dichanthelium 2 diet records. 51 native plants in Alabama
  • Helianthus 2 diet records. 23 native plants in Alabama
  • Impatiens 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Alabama
  • Menodora 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Alabama
  • Pediomelum 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Alabama
  • Rhynchosia 2 diet records. 5 native plants in Alabama
  • Verbena 2 diet records. 8 native plants in Alabama
  • Viola 2 diet records. 25 native plants in Alabama
  • Bidens 1 diet record. 10 native plants in Alabama
  • Strophostyles 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Alabama

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Alabama, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 114

Plants 1485

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Alabama

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 68

Plants 209

All of forest edges and thickets in Alabama

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Birds 49

Plants 191

All of glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone in Alabama

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources