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.
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipesMuhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Starrush Whitetop SedgeRhynchospora colorata
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Agalinis filicaulisAgalinis filicaulis
- Coelorachis tuberculosaCoelorachis tuberculosa
- Semaphore ThoroughwortEupatorium mikanioides
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Hartwrightia floridanaHartwrightia floridana
- MaidencaneHymenachne hemitomon
- Peelbark St. John's-wortHypericum fasciculatum
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- PondberryLindera melissifolia
- Curtiss' PrimrosewillowLudwigia curtissii
- Violet ButterwortPinguicula ionantha
- Yellow Fringeless OrchidPlatanthera integra
- Southern BeaksedgeRhynchospora microcarpa
- Coastal Plain WillowSalix caroliniana
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Savannah AsterSymphyotrichum chapmanii
Wildlife 280
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- LimpkinAramus guarauna
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- SoraPorzana carolina
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)



































