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Greater Yellowlegs

Tringa melanoleuca

A winter visitor to Florida, found in all 67 counties and 13 habitats.

Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
13

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
13
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 13

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

1 of 13

Freshwater marshes

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
WinterSouth 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
WinterOpen 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
WinterSouth Florida Bayhead SwampRegional / 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.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Southeast Florida Beach; South Florida Shell Hash Beach; Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach; Southwest Florida Beach; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

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

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.

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.

WinterCentral Florida Herbaceous Pondshore; Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression 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.

Winter

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

WinterFlorida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon 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.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Prairies and grasslands

Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County
WinterOnly within 120 m of water.Florida 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterOnly within 120 m of water.Developed, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (40)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
  • Louisiana Beach Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • South Texas Lomas Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Floodplain Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 13 of 67 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 306

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

Wildlife 286

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