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Cape May Warbler

Dendroica tigrina

A winter visitor to Florida, found in all 67 counties and 6 habitats.

Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
6
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 6

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

1 of 6

Prairies and grasslands

Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County
WinterFlorida 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterSouthwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland

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.

WinterSouth Florida Hardwood Hammock

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

WinterSouthwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock

Pine flatwoods

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

WinterSouth Florida Pine Flatwoods

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterDeveloped, Open Space
Other habitats in its models (12)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Winter.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Winter.
  • Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Winter.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Winter.
  • Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Winter.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in 2 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 166

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

Wildlife 273

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