Bird
American Woodcock
Scolopax minor
Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 9 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 9

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 9
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 9
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.


Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (81)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Winter.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer and winter.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland 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.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Winter.
- Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
- South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Year-round: nests here, in all 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 8 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 585
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- Water OakQuercus nigra
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Many-flowered Grass-pinkCalopogon multiflorus
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- Shining FetterbushLyonia lucida
- Spiked MedusaOrthochilus ecristatus
- Laurel OakQuercus laurifolia
- Cabbage PalmettoSabal palmetto
- Poison-ivyToxicodendron radicans
- MuscadineVitis rotundifolia
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- American BeautyberryCallicarpa americana
- Chapman's SedgeCarex chapmannii
- Mockernut HickoryCarya tomentosa
- Ctenium floridanumCtenium floridanum
- Hartwrightia floridanaHartwrightia floridana
- CamphorweedHeterotheca subaxillaris
- InkberryIlex glabra
Wildlife 279
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Shiny CowbirdMolothrus bonariensis
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- White-tailed KiteElanus leucurus
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Florida Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia floridana
- Florida Scrub-jayAphelocoma coerulescens
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
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 American Woodcock
- 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)










































