Bird
Le Conte's Sparrow
Ammodramus leconteii
A winter visitor to Florida, found in 49 of 67 counties and 8 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 49 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 8

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 49 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 8
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 8
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.


Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
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.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (34)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Winter.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
- Recently Burned Winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Winter: does not nest here, in 49 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 282
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Blue Water-hyssopBacopa caroliniana
- Purple Honeycomb-headBalduina atropurpurea
- Bejaria racemosaBejaria racemosa
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Sea OxeyeBorrichia frutescens
- Bouteloua hirsutaBouteloua hirsuta
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Southern BluethreadBurmannia capitata
- Bearded Grass-pinkCalopogon barbatus
- Many-flowered Grass-pinkCalopogon multiflorus
- Pale Grass-pinkCalopogon pallidus
- Ceratiola ericoidesCeratiola ericoides
- Woody GoldenrodChrysoma pauciflosculosa
- Godfrey's Golden AsterChrysopsis godfreyi
- Yellow ThistleCirsium horridulum
- SeagrapeCoccoloba uvifera
- False RosemaryConradina canescens
- Florida TickseedCoreopsis floridana
- Southern Swamp-lilyCrinum americanum
- Coastal Sand FrostweedCrocanthemum arenicola
- ChristmasberryCrossopetalum ilicifolium
- Pineland CrotonCroton linearis
- Tropical WaxweedCuphea aspera
- Swamp LoosestrifeDecodon verticillatus
Wildlife 280
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Whooping CraneGrus americana
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
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 Le Conte's Sparrow
- 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)




































