Bird

Least Sandpiper

Calidris minutilla

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Winter in Florida, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 14 habitats found here.

Seasons here: Winter
Breeding: Nonbreeding
Range: 67 of 67 counties
Habitats: 14

Adult Least Sandpiper, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) Ken Clark, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 378807780. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Seasons in Florida: Winter
Breeding: Nonbreeding
Counties in known range: 67 of 67
Habitat models: Winter

Where it lives

Southeast habitat models (USGS, 2001 land cover). The bird is not in every place a habitat occurs. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models Winter model

Habitats in Florida 14

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. Shared habitat, not food.

1 of 14

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier; South 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.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall; Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp; South Florida Bayhead Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin 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; Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach; Southwest Florida Beach; 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

Mangrove swamps

Tidal forests and thickets of red, black and white mangrove along sheltered tropical and subtropical shores.

Winter

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Pocosins and bay forests

Dense evergreen shrub wetlands and bay forests on wet, acid peat of the Coastal Plain.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall

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; Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish 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)

Other habitats in its models (24)

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

Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter
Unconsolidated Shore Winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter. Only within 60 m of water
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Winter
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter
Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Winter. Only within 60 m of water