Bird

Mottled Duck

Anas fulvigula

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Year-round in Florida, breeding, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 14 habitats found here.

Seasons here: Year-round
Breeding: Breeding
Range: 40 of 67 counties
Habitats: 14

Male Mottled Duck, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Sam Kieschnick, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 470103014. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Seasons in Florida: Year-round
Breeding: Breeding
Counties in known range: 40 of 67
Habitat models: Year-round

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 Year-round model

Habitats in Florida 14

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

1 of 14

Year-roundSouth 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.

Year-roundSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded 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.

Year-roundUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); 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.

Year-roundSouthern 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.

Year-round

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.

Year-roundCentral 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.

Year-round

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

Year-roundFlorida 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.

Year-round

Pine savannas

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

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish 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.

Year-roundOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-round. Only within 120 m of water, for banks or other nest sitesCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay

Other habitats in its models (15)

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

Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round
Unconsolidated Shore Year-round
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round. Only within 120 m of water, for banks or other nest sites
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round. Next to its main habitat. Only within 120 m of water, for banks or other nest sites
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Year-round
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Year-round
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Year-round
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Year-round
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Year-round