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Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Pheucticus ludovicianus

Passes through Alabama on migration. Found in all 67 counties, across 8 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
8

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
8
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Alabama 8

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

1 of 8

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - 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.

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Cedar Glade Number 5, Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP, Catoosa County
SummerRidge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and WoodlandLimestone 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.

Swamps

Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp
SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems; Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems; 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.

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.

Summer

Dry forests and woodlands

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

SummerAllegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood; Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Cumberland Riverscour

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.

SummerDeciduous Plantation
Other habitats in its models (44)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
  • Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Summer.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
  • Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
  • Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 207

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

Wildlife 236

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