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Killdeer

Charadrius vociferus

Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 6 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
6
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 6

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

1 of 6

Prairies and grasslands

Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County
SummerWinterFlorida 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Southeast Florida Beach; South Florida Shell Hash Beach; Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation; 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 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.

SummerWinter

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

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

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerWinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerWinterAtlantic 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
Other habitats in its models (77)

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

  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer and winter.
  • Barren Land Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Summer.
  • Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
  • Great Lakes Dune Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Summer.
  • North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Badland Summer.
  • North American Warm Desert Badland Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Shale Badland Summer.
  • Columbia Plateau Ash and Tuff Badland Summer.
  • Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer.
  • North Pacific Serpentine Barren Summer.
  • North American Warm Desert Playa Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
  • North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Alpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
  • North American Warm Desert Pavement Summer.
  • North American Warm Desert Volcanic Rockland Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Alpine Fell-Field Summer.
  • Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer.
  • Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer.
  • Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub Steppe Summer.
  • Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Alpine Dry Tundra Summer.
  • Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer.
  • North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Dry Grassland Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Summer.
  • North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer.
  • Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Summer.
  • California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
  • North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer.
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
  • Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
  • Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Summer.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
  • Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 157

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

Wildlife 246

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