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 676
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Northern SpicebushLindera benzoin
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- TuliptreeLiriodendron tulipifera
- White OakQuercus alba
- Water OakQuercus nigra
- Poison-ivyToxicodendron radicans
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Ravine SedgeCarex impressinervia
- American HornbeamCarpinus caroliniana
- Flowering DogwoodCornus florida
- American BeechFagus grandifolia
- White AshFraxinus americana
- BlackgumNyssa sylvatica
- Willow OakQuercus phellos
- American ElmUlmus americana
- Florida MapleAcer floridanum
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
- SugarberryCeltis laevigata
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
- Mountain LaurelKalmia latifolia
- White CutgrassLeersia virginica
Wildlife 233
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
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)














































