Bird
Willow Flycatcher
Empidonax traillii
A summer resident that nests in Alabama. Found in all 67 counties, across 4 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4
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At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Summer
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.
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.

Other habitats in its models (7)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer, only within 120 m of water.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
Seasons in Alabama
- Migratory: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 2 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 448
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Lookout Mountain CoreopsisCoreopsis pulchra
- Tall TickseedCoreopsis tripteris
- Rough Leaf DogwoodCornus drummondii
- American HazelnutCorylus americana
- Pear HawthornCrataegus calpodendron
- Elliptical RushfoilCroton willdenowii
- Canadian HonewortCryptotaenia canadensis
- Fragrant FlatsedgeCyperus odoratus
- Kentucky Ladys SlipperCypripedium kentuckiense
- Swamp LoosestrifeDecodon verticillatus
- Tall Tick-trefoilDesmodium glabellum
- Bosc's WitchgrassDichanthelium boscii
- Forked Witchgrass; Cypress Panicgrass; Forked Witch Grass; Cypress Panic GrassDichanthelium dichotomum var. dichotomum
- Yellow YamDioscorea villosa
- Log FernDryopteris celsa
- Three-way SedgeDulichium arundinaceum
- Blunt Spike RushEleocharis obtusa
- Wolf's SpikerushEleocharis wolfii
- Carolina Elephant's-footElephantopus carolinianus
- Canadian WaterweedElodea canadensis
- Eastern Bottlebrush-grassElymus hystrix
- Field HorsetailEquisetum arvense
- Sandbar LovegrassEragrostis frankii
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
Wildlife 225
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
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 Willow Flycatcher Elevation up to 850 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)





































