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Western Snowy Plover

Charadrius nivosus nivosus

A winter visitor to Alabama, found in 2 of 67 counties and 3 habitats.

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

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
2 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

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.

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)

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterBeside its main habitat.Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation
Other habitats in its models (22)

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

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

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

  • Winter: does not nest 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