Bird

American Pipit

Anthus rubescens

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Winter in Florida, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 14 habitats found here.

Seasons here: Winter
Breeding: Nonbreeding
Range: 64 of 67 counties
Habitats: 14

Adult American Pipit, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) Peter Chen 2.0, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 469787581. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Seasons in Florida: Winter
Breeding: Nonbreeding
Counties in known range: 64 of 67
Habitat models: Winter

Where it lives

Southeast habitat models (USGS, 2001 land cover). The bird is not in every place a habitat occurs. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models Winter model

Habitats in Florida 14

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. Shared habitat, not food.

1 of 14

WinterFloridian Highlands Freshwater MarshRegional / 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.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded SwampRegional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal swamps, Florida to Virginia; state not identified, a neighboring state.Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

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.

Winter

Depression ponds and limesinks

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

WinterCentral Florida Herbaceous Pondshore; Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore

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.

Winter

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest

Freshwater tidal marshes

Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.

WinterFlorida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

WinterCultivated Cropland

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh; Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh

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.

Winter. Next to its main habitatOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Other habitats in its models (22)

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

Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Winter
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter
Unconsolidated Shore Winter
Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter
Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter
East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter
Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Winter
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter
Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter
Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Winter
Mississippi River Riparian Forest Winter
Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Winter
Red River Large Floodplain Forest Winter
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter