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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

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.

1 of 4

Streams, rivers and their banks

Blue Spring, Florida
SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Cumberland Riverscour; South-Central Interior Small Stream and RiparianWinslow Homer, Blue Spring, Florida (1890): clear blue spring water under overhanging palms. Shown: Blue Spring, Florida (Winslow Homer, 1890; National Gallery of Art), a neighboring state.Blue Spring, Florida, Winslow Homer, 1890. Public domain. Source record.

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.

Summer

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerOnly within 120 m of water.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration
Other habitats in its models (7)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama. Those recorded in Alabama first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (2)
  • Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
Midwest (1)
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer, only within 120 m of water.
Land cover and other classes (4)
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 2 of 67 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Alabama, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 104

Plants 418

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Alabama

Streams, rivers and their banks

Birds 94

Plants 322

All of streams, rivers and their banks in Alabama

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 144

Plants 38

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Alabama

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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