Bird
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Sitta canadensis
A winter visitor to Alabama, found in all 67 counties and 6 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 6

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest 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.

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.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
Other habitats in its models (38)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Winter.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Winter.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Winter.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Winter.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer and winter.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Winter.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Winter.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
- Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Winter.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Winter.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Red River Large Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Winter.
Seasons in Alabama
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 677
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Eastern Needle GrassPiptochaetium avenaceum
- Blackseed PlantainPlantago rugelii
- Yellow Fringeless OrchidPlatanthera integra
- PickerelweedPontederia cordata
- Swamp CottonwoodPopulus heterophylla
- Scarlet OakQuercus coccinea
- Darlington OakQuercus hemisphaerica
- Overcup OakQuercus lyrata
- Blackjack OakQuercus marilandica
- Rhexia salicifoliaRhexia salicifolia
- Smooth AzaleaRhododendron arborescens
- Black LocustRobinia pseudoacacia
- Pale DockRumex altissimus
- Salix floridanaSalix floridana
- Whitetop PitcherplantSarracenia leucophylla
- Bay StarvineSchisandra glabra
- Woolgrass BulrushScirpus cyperinus
- Late FigwortScrophularia marilandica
- Hyssop SkullcapScutellaria integrifolia
- Cat GreenbrierSmilax glauca
- Carolina HorsenettleSolanum carolinense
- Giant GoldenrodSolidago gigantea
- Early GoldenrodSolidago juncea
- Yellow IndiangrassSorghastrum nutans
Wildlife 233
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
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 Red-breasted Nuthatch
- 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)












































