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Bank Swallow

Riparia riparia

Passes through Florida on migration. Found in all 67 counties, across 16 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
16

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
16
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Florida 16

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 16

Freshwater marshes

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
SummerSouth Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh; Floridian 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.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
SummerOpen Water (Fresh); Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural LakeshoreRegional / 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Southeast Florida Beach; South Florida Shell Hash Beach; Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation; Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach; Southwest Florida Beach; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal 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.

SummerSouthern 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.

Summer

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.

SummerCentral 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.

Summer

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

SummerFlorida 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.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerAtlantic 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.

SummerOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
SummerOnly within 250 m of water.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; 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.

Prairies and grasslands

Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County
SummerOnly within 250 m of water.Florida Dry PrairieLimestone prairie. Shown: Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Florida scrub

Evergreen scrub oaks, sand pine and rosemary on deep, white, drought-prone sand ridges, burned rarely but intensely; distinct from the longleaf and turkey oak sandhills.

SummerOnly within 250 m of water.

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

SummerOnly within 250 m of water.East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerOnly within 250 m of water.Developed, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (80)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer.
  • Barren Land Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer.
  • Louisiana Beach Summer.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer.
  • Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Cliff Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Interior Acid Cliff Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Rocky Summit Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Granitic Dome Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Granite Flatrock Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 399

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 286

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