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Black-bellied Plover

Pluvialis squatarola

A winter visitor to Florida, found in 64 of 67 counties and 5 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
64 of 67 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
64 of 67 counties
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 5

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

1 of 5

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
WinterAtlantic 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.

WinterAtlantic 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

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.

WinterAtlantic 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.

Winter

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterOnly within 500 m of water.Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (18)

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

  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
  • Louisiana Beach Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 64 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 146

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

Wildlife 275

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