Bird

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Dendrocygna autumnalis

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Year-round and summer in Florida, breeding, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 14 habitats found here.

Seasons here: Year-round and summer
Breeding: Breeding
Range: 52 of 67 counties
Habitats: 14

Male Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Sanchez Jhony, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 194198850. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Seasons in Florida: Year-round and summer
Breeding: Breeding
Counties in known range: 52 of 67
Habitat models: Summer, Winter

Where it lives

Southeast habitat models (USGS, 2001 land cover). The bird is not in every place a habitat occurs. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models Summer model Winter model

Habitats in Florida 14

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. Shared habitat, not food.

1 of 14

Summer and winterSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier; South 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.

Summer and winterSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp; South Florida Bayhead Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp; South Florida Cypress Dome; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress DomeRegional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal swamps, Florida to Virginia; state not identified, a neighboring state.Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

Summer and winterSouthern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

Summer and winterSouthern 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 and winter

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.

Summer and winterCentral Florida Herbaceous 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 and winter

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

Summer and winterAtlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

Summer and winterFlorida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Mangrove swamps

Tidal forests and thickets of red, black and white mangrove along sheltered tropical and subtropical shores.

Summer and winter

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

Summer and winterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

Summer and winterAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh

Pine flatwoods

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

Summer and winter. Only within 2,000 m of waterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods

Other habitats in its models (25)

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

Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter
North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer and winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer and winter
South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer and winter
Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer and winter
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter
Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer and winter
Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter. Only within 2,000 m of water
Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer and winter. Only within 2,000 m of water