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Snow Goose

Chen caerulescens

A winter visitor to Alabama, found in 19 of 67 counties and 6 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
19 of 67 counties
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
19 of 67 counties
Habitats
6
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Alabama 6

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

1 of 6

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
WinterOpen Water (Fresh)Regional / 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterAtlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

WinterCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (42)

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

  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Winter.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
  • California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Winter.
  • California Northern Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Winter.
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Winter.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 19 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 50

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

Wildlife 242

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.

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