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Rock Pigeon

Columba livia

Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 5 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Alabama 5

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

1 of 5

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay

Cliffs, ledges and rocky summits

Trees and rocks on Little Kennesaw Mountain.
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Southern Piedmont CliffNamed place / source context. Shown: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Georgia, a neighboring state.Trees and rocks on Little Kennesaw Mountain., Unidentified in HFC record, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Cedar Glade Number 5, Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP, Catoosa County
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Southern Interior Calcareous CliffLimestone 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
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Southern Interior Acid CliffSolution 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 dunes and beaches

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

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)
Other habitats in its models (11)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 72

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

Wildlife 225

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