Bird
Masked Booby
Sula dactylatra
Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in 1 of 67 counties, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 1 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 2
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 1 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Year-round
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 2
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
Seasons in Florida
- Year-round: nests here, in 1 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 12
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Sea OatsUniola paniculata
- Coastal SearocketCakile lanceolata
- Coastal SandspurCenchrus spinifex
- Garber's SandmatEuphorbia garberi
- Mangrove SpiderlilyHymenocallis latifolia
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Seabeach Evening-primroseOenothera humifusa
- Burrowing Four-o'clockOkenia hypogaea
- Florida Fishpoison TreePiscidia piscipula
- Florida Keys BlackbeadPithecellobium keyense
- BeachberryScaevola plumieri
- Shoreline Sea-purslaneSesuvium portulacastrum
Wildlife 188
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Nelson's Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus nelsoni
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus caudacutus
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Seaside SparrowAmmodramus maritimus
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP year-round habitat model for Masked Booby Marine water only
- 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)