Bird
Eastern Phoebe
Sayornis phoebe
A winter visitor to Florida, found in all 67 counties and 8 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 8

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 8
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 8
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.


Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (84)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Summer and winter.
- Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer and winter.
- North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Summer and winter.
- North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Cliff Summer and winter.
- Southern Interior Acid Cliff Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Summer and winter.
- Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Rocky Summit Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Granite Flatrock Summer and winter.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer and winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Winter.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
- Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer and winter.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer and winter.
- Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian 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.
- South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer and winter.
- Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 607
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Boykin's LobeliaLobelia boykinii
- Lopholejeunea nigricansLopholejeunea nigricans
- Long Beach SeedboxLudwigia brevipes
- Taperleaf BugleweedLycopus rubellus
- Lythrum curtissiiLythrum curtissii
- White Birds-in-a-nestMacbridea alba
- Partridge-berryMitchella repens
- Loose Water-milfoilMyriophyllum laxum
- Nyssa ogecheNyssa ogeche
- BlackgumNyssa sylvatica
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
- Spiked MedusaOrthochilus ecristatus
- Royal FernOsmunda spectabilis
- Cinnamon FernOsmundastrum cinnamomeum
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Dotted SmartweedPersicaria punctata
- Violet ButterwortPinguicula ionantha
- Pinguicula planifoliaPinguicula planifolia
- Spruce Pine; Walters Pine; Cedar PinePinus glabra
- Longleaf PinePinus palustris
- Pond PinePinus serotina
- Yellow Fringeless OrchidPlatanthera integra
- American SycamorePlatanus occidentalis
- Rush-featherlingPleea tenuifolia
Wildlife 288
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Eastern Phoebe Avoids forest interior
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)







































