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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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)George Catlin, White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola (1834-35): high white dunes with scattered clumps of dune plants above the Gulf. Shown: Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola, Florida, a neighboring state.White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola, George Catlin (1796-1872), 1834-1835. Public domain. Source record.

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Southern Interior Acid Cliff
Other habitats in its models (11)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama. Those recorded in Alabama first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (1)
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Northeast (2)
  • North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (2)
  • Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (6)
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

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

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 80

Plant genera in its diet records (15)
  • Avena 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Alabama
  • Hordeum 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Alabama
  • Prunus 2 diet records. 8 native plants in Alabama
  • Triticum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Alabama
  • Zea 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Alabama
  • Amaranthus 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Alabama
  • Digitaria 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Alabama
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Alabama
  • Phytolacca 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Alabama
  • Polygonum 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Alabama
  • Quercus 1 diet record. 46 native plants in Alabama
  • Robinia 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Alabama
  • Sorghum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Alabama
  • Toxicodendron 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Alabama
  • Ulmus 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Alabama

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Alabama, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 114

Plants 1485

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Alabama

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Birds 36

Plants 71

All of granite and other acidic rock outcrops in Alabama

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Birds 49

Plants 191

All of glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone in Alabama

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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