Bird
Thayer's Gull
Larus thayeri
A winter visitor to Alabama, found in 2 of 67 counties and 4 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 4
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
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.
Other habitats in its models (3)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
Seasons in Alabama
- Winter: does not nest here, in 2 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 237
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Thayer's Gull
- 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)