Bird
White Ibis
Eudocimus albus
Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in 43 of 67 counties, across 10 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 43 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 10

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 43 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 10
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 10
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.



Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.
Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)
Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
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.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Other habitats in its models (46)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.
Seasons in Alabama
- Year-round: nests here, in 43 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 255
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Rose Pitcherplant; Rose Pitcher PlantSarracenia rosea
- Lizard's-tailSaururus cernuus
- Laurel GreenbrierSmilax laurifolia
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSporobolus pumilus
- Swamp RedbayTamala palustris
- Quillwort Yellow Eyed GrassXyris isoetifolia
- Harper's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris scabrifolia
- Drummonds Red MapleAcer drummondii
- Beach False FoxgloveAgalinis fasciculata
- Agalinis filicaulisAgalinis filicaulis
- Agrimonia incisaAgrimonia incisa
- New York FernAmauropelta noveboracensis
- Pinewoods BluestemAndropogon arctatus
- Narrowleaf BluestemAndropogon perangustatus
- Apteria aphyllaApteria aphylla
- Aristida beyrichianaAristida beyrichiana
- Southern Three-awnAristida simpliciflora
- Arnoglossum diversifoliumArnoglossum diversifolium
- Switch CaneArundinaria tecta
- Red MilkweedAsclepias rubra
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Baptisia megacarpaBaptisia megacarpa
- Southern BluethreadBurmannia capitata
- American BeautyberryCallicarpa americana
Wildlife 228
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- American CootFulica americana
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
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 White Ibis
- 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)



































