Bird
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podiceps
Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 6 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 6

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 6
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 6
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
Other habitats in its models (41)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer and winter.
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Maritime Eelgrass Bed Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Eelgrass Bed Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer and winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
- Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer and winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer and winter.
- North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
- Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
Seasons in Alabama
- Year-round: nests here, in 58 of 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 37 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 50
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSporobolus pumilus
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Shoreline SedgeCarex hyalinolepis
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Erectleaf WitchgrassDichanthelium erectifolium
- Seashore SaltgrassDistichlis spicata
- Slim SpikerushEleocharis elongata
- Florida ThoroughwortEupatorium anomalum
- Fimbristylis carolinianaFimbristylis caroliniana
- Fimbristylis castaneaFimbristylis castanea
- Fuirena longaFuirena longa
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Largeleaf PennywortHydrocotyle bonariensis
- MaidencaneHymenachne hemitomon
- Atlantic St. John's-wortHypericum tenuifolium
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Black NeedlerushJuncus roemerianus
Wildlife 218
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Buff-bellied HummingbirdAmazilia yucatanensis
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- DickcisselSpiza americana
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
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 Pied-billed Grebe
- 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)







































