Bird
Antillean Nighthawk
Chordeiles gundlachii
A summer resident that nests in Florida. Found in 2 of 67 counties, across 4 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4
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At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 2 of 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 Florida 4
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (13)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
- Developed, High Intensity Summer.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer.
- Barren Land Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
Seasons in Florida
- Summer: nests here, in 2 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 12
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Coastal SearocketCakile lanceolata
- Burrowing Four-o'clockOkenia hypogaea
- Sea OatsUniola paniculata
- Coastal SandspurCenchrus spinifex
- Garber's SandmatEuphorbia garberi
- Mangrove SpiderlilyHymenocallis latifolia
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Seabeach Evening-primroseOenothera humifusa
- Florida Fishpoison TreePiscidia piscipula
- Florida Keys BlackbeadPithecellobium keyense
- BeachberryScaevola plumieri
- Shoreline Sea-purslaneSesuvium portulacastrum
Wildlife 278
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
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 Antillean Nighthawk
- 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)






























