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Glossy Ibis

Plegadis falcinellus

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Year-round in Florida, breeding, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 12 habitats found here.

Seasons here
Year-round
Breeding
Breeding
Range
55 of 67 counties
Habitats
12

At a glance

Group
Birds
Seasons in Florida
Year-round
Breeding
Breeding
Counties in known range
55 of 67
Habitat models
Year-round

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 Year-round model

Habitats in Florida 12

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

1 of 12

Freshwater marshes

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
Year-roundSouth 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
Year-roundOpen 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.

Swamps

Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp
Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp; South Florida Bayhead 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 dunes and beaches

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

Year-roundUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

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.

Year-roundSouthern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock

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.

Year-roundCentral Florida Herbaceous Pondshore

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater 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.

Year-roundFlorida 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.

Year-round

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

Year-roundAtlantic 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.

Year-roundOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-round. Only within 120 m of waterCultivated Cropland
Other habitats in its models (14)

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

  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Year-round
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Year-round

Habitat names: NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0.

Seasons in Florida

Modeled range from USGS maps (2001), by watershed. Not sighting records. Migratory gives no dates. USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps

  • Year-round. Breeding and nonbreeding. Range includes 55 of 67 counties

Also found in this habitat

Plants 415

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

Wildlife 284

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.

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