Bird
Swainson's Warbler
Limnothlypis swainsonii
A summer resident that nests in Alabama. Found in all 67 counties, across 6 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 6

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 6
- Habitat models
- Summer
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.

Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
Other habitats in its models (52)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Alabama
- Summer: nests here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 685
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Trillium reliquumTrillium reliquum
- Three Birds OrchidTriphora trianthophoros
- Eastern HemlockTsuga canadensis
- Winged ElmUlmus alata
- WingstemVerbesina alternifolia
- Riverbank GrapeVitis riparia
- Drummonds Red MapleAcer drummondii
- Box-elderAcer negundo
- White BaneberryActaea pachypoda
- White SnakerootAgeratina altissima
- New York FernAmauropelta noveboracensis
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- PuttyrootAplectrum hyemale
- Spreading RockcressArabis patens
- Ebony SpleenwortAsplenium platyneuron
- Blackstem SpleenwortAsplenium resiliens
- SweetshrubCalycanthus floridus
- Wild HyacinthCamassia scilloides
- Tall BellflowerCampanulastrum americanum
- Fringed SedgeCarex crinita
- Cypress-knee SedgeCarex decomposita
- Southern Waxy SedgeCarex glaucescens
- Bladder SedgeCarex intumescens
- Krals SedgeCarex kraliana
Wildlife 185
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Swainson's Warbler Elevation 0 to 1,200 m
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)













































