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.
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed CurlewNumenius americanus
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Nelson's Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus nelsoni
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Red-crowned ParrotAmazona viridigenalis
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellata
- Reddish EgretEgretta rufescens
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Roseate SpoonbillPlatalea ajaja
- Roseate TernSterna dougallii
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)