Bird

Red-winged Blackbird

Agelaius phoeniceus

Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 23 habitats.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 67 counties
Habitats: 23

Male Red-winged Blackbird, whole bird — **Male**. no rights reserved. CC0. iNaturalist photo 31553950. Source-provided large resize; no crop or image edits.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 67 counties
Habitats: 23
Habitat models: Summer, Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Alabama 23

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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SummerWinterDisturbed/Successional - 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.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea ModifierRegional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

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.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome; Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression SwampRegional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal swamps, Florida to Virginia; state not identified, a neighboring state.Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

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.

SummerWinter

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

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain

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.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods; South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods

Pine flatwoods

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

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

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerWinterCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerWinterMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerWinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Cumberland Riverscour; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

WinterBeside its main habitat.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.

WinterBeside its main habitat.Cumberland 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.

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.

WinterBeside its main habitat.Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock; Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock

Dry forests and woodlands

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

WinterBeside its main habitat.East 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; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier; Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest; Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest; Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

WinterBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest

Moderately dry forests

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

WinterBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest; Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

WinterBeside its main habitat.Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest; South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest

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.

WinterBeside its main habitat.Deciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine

Other habitats in its models (171)

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

Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
Developed, Medium Intensity Summer and winter.
Developed, High Intensity Summer and winter.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Winter, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter, beside its main habitat.
Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
South Florida Pine Rockland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter.
Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Winter, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Winter, beside its main habitat.
East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer and winter.
North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Winter, beside its main habitat.
Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Winter, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
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 and winter.
Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland 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.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer and winter.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh 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.
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Winter, beside its main habitat.
South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer and winter.
Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer and winter.
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer and winter.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
South Florida Cypress Dome Winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter, beside its main habitat.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter, beside its main habitat.
Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Winter, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi River Riparian Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Red River Large Floodplain Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Winter, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Winter, beside its main habitat.