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Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow

Ammodramus nelsoni

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Winter in Florida, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 6 habitats found here.

Seasons here
Winter
Breeding
Nonbreeding
Range
36 of 67 counties
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Seasons in Florida
Winter
Breeding
Nonbreeding
Counties in known range
36 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 6

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

1 of 6

Freshwater marshes

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
WinterSouth 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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

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

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
Other habitats in its models (5)

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

  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter

Habitat names: NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0.

Seasons in Florida

Modeled range from USGS maps (2001), by watershed. Not sighting records. Migratory gives no dates. USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps

  • Winter. Nonbreeding. Range includes 36 of 67 counties

Also found in this habitat

Plants 140

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 251

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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