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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

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.

1 of 4

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Southeast Florida Beach; South Florida Shell Hash Beach; Southwest Florida Beach

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

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed, Non-specific
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.

All habitats

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.

Wildlife 278

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources