Bird
Northern Pintail
Anas acuta
A winter visitor to Alabama, found in all 67 counties and 9 habitats.
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 9

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 9
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 9
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.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (39)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter, only within 500 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, only within 500 m of water.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter, only within 500 m of water.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter, only within 500 m of water.
- Recently Burned Winter, only within 500 m of water.
- Recently Burned Forest Winter, only within 500 m of water.
- Recently Burned Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore 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.
- 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
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 13 of 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 66 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 167
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Scaleleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis aphylla
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- Arnoglossum sulcatumArnoglossum sulcatum
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- InkberryIlex glabra
- Virginia SweetspireItea virginica
- Panhandle LilyLilium iridollae
- PondberryLindera melissifolia
- Bog SpicebushLindera subcoriacea
- Shining FetterbushLyonia lucida
- Macranthera flammeaMacranthera flammea
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- White Arrow-arumPeltandra sagittifolia
- Pinguicula primulifloraPinguicula primuliflora
- Pond PinePinus serotina
- Whitetop PitcherplantSarracenia leucophylla
- Rose Pitcherplant; Rose Pitcher PlantSarracenia rosea
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSporobolus pumilus
- Harper's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris scabrifolia
- Drummonds Red MapleAcer drummondii
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
Wildlife 253
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- King RailRallus elegans
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
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 Northern Pintail
- 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)






































