Bird
Horned Lark
Eremophila alpestris
Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in 47 of 67 counties, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 47 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 47 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 3
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (27)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Barren Land Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer and winter.
- Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
- Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer and winter.
- Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Year-round: nests here, in 2 of 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 47 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 93
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Sea OatsUniola paniculata
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Shoreline Sea-purslaneSesuvium portulacastrum
- Northern Seaside SpurgeEuphorbia polygonifolia
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Archidium minusArchidium minus
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Coastal SearocketCakile lanceolata
- Woody GoldenrodChrysoma pauciflosculosa
- Southern Seaside SpurgeEuphorbia bombensis
- CamphorweedHeterotheca subaxillaris
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipesMuhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes
- Burrowing Four-o'clockOkenia hypogaea
- Sand Live OakQuercus geminata
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Cabbage PalmettoSabal palmetto
- BeachberryScaevola plumieri
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Andropogon brachystachyusAndropogon brachystachyus
- Splitbeard BluestemAndropogon ternarius
- Tall ThreeawnAristida patula
- Aristida spiciformisAristida spiciformis
Wildlife 241
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalis
- White-tailed KiteElanus leucurus
- Whooping CraneGrus americana
- Yellow RailCoturnicops noveboracensis
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Antillean NighthawkChordeiles gundlachii
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia
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 Horned Lark
- 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)




































