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Snowy Plover

Charadrius nivosus

Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in 2 of 67 counties, across 3 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
2 of 67 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
2 of 67 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Summer, 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

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
SummerWinterOpen 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.

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.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation
Other habitats in its models (25)

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

  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
  • Barren Land Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Louisiana Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Badland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Sonora-Mojave Creosotebush-White Bursage Desert Scrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

  • Year-round: nests here, in 2 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 8

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

Wildlife 162

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