Bird

Rufous Hummingbird

Selasphorus rufus

A winter visitor to Alabama, found in 5 of 67 counties and 3 habitats.

Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 5 of 67 counties
Habitats: 3

Male Rufous Hummingbird, whole bird — **Male**. (c) highsinger, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0. iNaturalist photo 407913026. Source-provided large resize; no crop or image edits.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 5 of 67 counties
Habitats: 3
Habitat models: Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Alabama 3

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

1 of 3

WinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; 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.

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.

Winter

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterDeveloped, Open Space; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration

Other habitats in its models (7)

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

Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Winter.
Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Winter.
Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Winter.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

Winter: does not nest here, in 5 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Wildlife 229

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.

Great Egret
Ardea alba
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Greater Scaup
Aythya marila
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Green Heron
Butorides virescens
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon nilotica
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Hairy Woodpecker
Picoides villosus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Hermit Thrush
Catharus guttatus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Hooded Merganser
Lophodytes cucullatus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Hooded Warbler
Wilsonia citrina
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Horned Grebe
Podiceps auritus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Horned Lark
Eremophila alpestris
Birds. 1 shared habitat
House Sparrow
Passer domesticus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Kentucky Warbler
Oporornis formosus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Killdeer
Charadrius vociferus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
King Rail
Rallus elegans
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Least Bittern
Ixobrychus exilis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutilla
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Least Tern
Sternula antillarum
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Lesser Scaup
Aythya affinis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipes
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Little Blue Heron
Egretta caerulea
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Little Gull
Hydrocoloeus minutus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Long-eared Owl
Asio otus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Marsh Wren
Cistothorus palustris
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Ammodramus nelsoni
Birds. 1 shared habitat

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.