Bird
Greater Scaup
Aythya marila
A winter visitor to Florida, found in 22 of 67 counties and 5 habitats.
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 22 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 5

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 22 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.

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.
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.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
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.
Other habitats in its models (1)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 10 of 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 21 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 37
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Seashore SaltgrassDistichlis spicata
- Black NeedlerushJuncus roemerianus
- Saltmarsh CordgrassSpartina alterniflora
- Tropical WaxweedCuphea aspera
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Batis maritimaBatis maritima
- Sea OxeyeBorrichia frutescens
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Seashore MallowKosteletzkya pentacarpos
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Violet ButterwortPinguicula ionantha
- Sand Live OakQuercus geminata
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Black MangroveAvicennia germinans
- Coastal Water-hyssopBacopa monnieri
- Many-flowered Grass-pinkCalopogon multiflorus
- Forestiera godfreyiForestiera godfreyi
- HammockherbHasteola robertiorum
- Godfrey's SpiderlilyHymenocallis godfreyi
Wildlife 238
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Nelson's Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus nelsoni
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- LimpkinAramus guarauna
- Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
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 Greater Scaup
- 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)


































