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Northern Bobwhite

Colinus virginianus

Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 10 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
10

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
10
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Florida 10

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 10

Coastal dunes and beaches

White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola
Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal GrasslandGeorge Catlin, White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola (1834-35): high white dunes with scattered clumps of dune plants above the Gulf. Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola, FloridaWhite Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola, George Catlin (1796-1872), 1834-1835. Public domain. Source record.

Pine flatwoods

Georgia Pines
Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods; Central Florida Pine Flatwoods; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine FlatwoodsGeorge Inness, Georgia Pines (1890): tall, straight pines over an open, grassy floor in a south Georgia pine woods. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Georgia pine woods (George Inness, 1890; site not named), a neighboring state.Georgia Pines, George Inness (1825-1894), 1890. Public domain. Source record.

Pine savannas

Beautiful Savannah in the Pine Woods of Florida
Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and FlatwoodsGeorge Catlin, Beautiful Savannah in the Pine Woods of Florida (1834-35): an open grassy savanna with a shallow pond, ringed by tall pines, with palmettos and red wildflowers. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Pine woods of Florida (George Catlin, 1834-35; Smithsonian American Art Museum)Beautiful Savannah in the Pine Woods of Florida, George Catlin, 1834-1835. Public domain. Source record.

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

Year-roundFlorida Dry Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Sandhills

Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire.

Year-roundFlorida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier

Coastal Plain hammocks

In the Jungle, Florida
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.South Florida Hardwood Hammock; Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and HammockWinslow Homer, In the Jungle, Florida (1904): cabbage palms, saw palmetto and fallen trunks in a dense, shady hammock, with a wildcat in the branches. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Florida (Winslow Homer, In the Jungle, Florida, 1904)In the Jungle, Florida, Winslow Homer, 1904. Public domain. Source record.

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock; Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock; East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (77)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida. Those recorded in Florida first, the rest by region.

In Florida 2

  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Elsewhere in the South (35)
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
  • Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Year-round.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
Northeast (4)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Year-round.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Year-round.
Midwest (6)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (30)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 67 counties.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 395

Plant genera in its diet records (50)
  • Lespedeza 18 diet records. 9 native plants in Florida
  • Croton 15 diet records. 9 native plants in Florida
  • Sorghum 10 diet records. 0 native plants in Florida
  • Galactia 9 diet records. 12 native plants in Florida
  • Prunus 9 diet records. 7 native plants in Florida
  • Glycine 8 diet records. 0 native plants in Florida
  • Urochloa 8 diet records. 2 native plants in Florida
  • Zea 8 diet records. 0 native plants in Florida
  • Chamaecrista 7 diet records. 5 native plants in Florida
  • Quercus Seeds. 7 diet records. 43 native plants in Florida
  • Vigna 7 diet records. 1 native plant in Florida
  • Geranium 6 diet records. 2 native plants in Florida
  • Oxalis 6 diet records. 3 native plants in Florida
  • Sassafras 6 diet records. 1 native plant in Florida
  • Triticum 6 diet records. 0 native plants in Florida
  • Ambrosia 5 diet records. 4 native plants in Florida
  • Digitaria 5 diet records. 8 native plants in Florida
  • Setaria 5 diet records. 4 native plants in Florida
  • Panicum 4 diet records. 5 native plants in Florida
  • Paspalum 4 diet records. 19 native plants in Florida
  • Physalis Fruit. 4 diet records. 8 native plants in Florida
  • Rhus 4 diet records. 4 native plants in Florida
  • Vicia 4 diet records. 6 native plants in Florida
  • Carex 3 diet records. 77 native plants in Florida
  • Centrosema 3 diet records. 2 native plants in Florida
  • Cyperus 3 diet records. 37 native plants in Florida
  • Desmanthus 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Florida
  • Diodia 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Florida
  • Krigia 3 diet records. 3 native plants in Florida
  • Liquidambar 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Florida
  • Mimosa 3 diet records. 2 native plants in Florida
  • Polygonum 3 diet records. 10 native plants in Florida
  • Rubus 3 diet records. 4 native plants in Florida
  • Sesbania 3 diet records. 3 native plants in Florida
  • Zanthoxylum 3 diet records. 5 native plants in Florida
  • Argemone 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Florida
  • Celtis Fruit. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Florida
  • Commelina 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Florida
  • Descurainia 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Florida
  • Desmodium 2 diet records. 19 native plants in Florida
  • Dichanthelium 2 diet records. 20 native plants in Florida
  • Helianthus 2 diet records. 14 native plants in Florida
  • Impatiens 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Florida
  • Menodora 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Florida
  • Pediomelum 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Florida
  • Rhynchosia 2 diet records. 10 native plants in Florida
  • Verbena 2 diet records. 6 native plants in Florida
  • Viola 2 diet records. 9 native plants in Florida
  • Bidens 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Florida
  • Strophostyles 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Florida

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Florida, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 116

Plants 1524

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Florida

Pine flatwoods

Birds 69

Plants 315

All of pine flatwoods in Florida

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 127

Plants 187

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Florida

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources