Bird

Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Winter in Florida, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 15 habitats found here.

Seasons here: Winter
Breeding: Nonbreeding
Range: 52 of 67 counties
Habitats: 15

Male Mallard, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Codrin Bucur, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 177479326. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Seasons in Florida: Winter
Breeding: Nonbreeding
Counties in known range: 52 of 67
Habitat models: Summer, 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 Summer model Winter model

Habitats in Florida 15

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

1 of 15

Summer and 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.

Summer and winterSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress DomeRegional / 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.

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

SummerSouthern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

SummerSouthern 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.

Summer and 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.

Summer and 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

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

Summer and winterAtlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

Summer and winterFlorida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

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.

Summer and winterAtlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Winter. Only within 250 m of waterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland

Other habitats in its models (53)

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

Developed, Low Intensity Winter. Next to its main habitat. Only within 250 m of water
Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter
Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter. Only within 250 m of water
West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter. Only within 250 m of water
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter
Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer and winter
Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer
Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter
Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter
Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer
Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter
Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter
Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter
Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer and winter
Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Winter
Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer
Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer
Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer and winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer and winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter
Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter
South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer and winter
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer and winter
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter