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Prairie Warbler

Dendroica discolor

A summer resident that nests in Alabama. Found in all 67 counties, across 13 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
13

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
13
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

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

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
SummerWinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Cedar Glade Number 5, Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP, Catoosa County
SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff; Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland; Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and BarrensLimestone cedar glade. Shown: Cedar Glade Number 5, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Catoosa County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Cedar Glade Number 5, Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP, Catoosa County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Solution pits, Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, DeKalb County
SummerCumberland Sandstone Glade and BarrensSolution pits on granite. Shown: Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, DeKalb County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Solution pits, Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, DeKalb County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Prairies and grasslands

Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County
SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and WoodlandLimestone prairie. Shown: Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal Plain hammocks

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.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock

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.

SummerWinter

Dry forests and woodlands

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

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest; Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood; Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest; Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest

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.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

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

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.

SummerWinterEvergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (83)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Winter.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer and winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

  • Summer: nests here, in all 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 451

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

Wildlife 255

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