Bird
Willet
Tringa semipalmata
Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in 2 of 67 counties, across 5 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 5

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 5
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 5
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
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.
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.
Other habitats in its models (65)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Summer and winter.
- Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer and winter.
- Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Winter.
- North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Winter.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Winter.
- North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Columbia Plateau Low Sagebrush Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Columbia Plateau Scabland Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
- 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.
- Mediterranean California Eelgrass Bed Winter.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Winter, only within 60 m of water.
- North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Winter.
- North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
- North Pacific Bog and Fen Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
- Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Winter.
- Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
- Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
Seasons in Alabama
- Year-round: nests here, in 2 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 39
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Woody GoldenrodChrysoma pauciflosculosa
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarum var. amarulum
- Sand Live OakQuercus geminata
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Gulf BluestemSchizachyrium maritimum
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Shoreline Sea-purslaneSesuvium portulacastrum
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSporobolus pumilus
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Sea OatsUniola paniculata
- Gulf Coast Sea RocketCakile constricta
- Ceratiola ericoidesCeratiola ericoides
- Godfrey's Golden AsterChrysopsis godfreyi
- False RosemaryConradina canescens
- Coastal Sand FrostweedCrocanthemum arenicola
- Wright's WitchgrassDichanthelium wrightianum
- Seashore SaltgrassDistichlis spicata
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Littleleaf MilkpeaGalactia microphylla
- Largeleaf PennywortHydrocotyle bonariensis
Wildlife 218
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Rufous HummingbirdSelasphorus rufus
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglecta
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
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 Willet Brackish or salt water only
- 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)




































