Bird
Northern Waterthrush
Seiurus noveboracensis
Passes through Alabama on migration. Found in all 67 counties, across 8 habitats.
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 8

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 8
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 8
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.


Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.
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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
Other habitats in its models (26)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Winter.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
- South Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter, only within 120 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Winter.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter, only within 120 m of water.
Seasons in Alabama
- Migratory: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 384
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Longleaf SpikegrassChasmanthium sessiliflorum
- Coelorachis tuberculosaCoelorachis tuberculosa
- Stalked PanicgrassColeataenia stipitata
- Virginia DayflowerCommelina virginica
- Southern Swamp-lilyCrinum americanum
- Le Conte's FlatsedgeCyperus lecontei
- Swamp LoosestrifeDecodon verticillatus
- Rough WitchgrassDichanthelium leucothrix
- Naked Stem Witch GrassDichanthelium nudicaule
- Branched FoldwingDicliptera brachiata
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Gulf Sebastian-bushDitrysinia fruticosa
- Drosera tracyiDrosera tracyi
- Log FernDryopteris celsa
- Southern Wood-fernDryopteris ludoviciana
- Three-way SedgeDulichium arundinaceum
- Gulf Coast SpikerushEleocharis cellulosa
- Websteria confervoidesEleocharis confervoides
- Slim SpikerushEleocharis elongata
- Blackfruit SpikerushEleocharis melanocarpa
- Robbins's SpikerushEleocharis robbinsii
- Beaked SpikerushEleocharis rostellata
- Three-angle SpikerushEleocharis tricostata
- Eastern Bottlebrush-grassElymus hystrix
Wildlife 248
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
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 Waterthrush Elevation up to 2,000 m. 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)


































