Bird

Northern Flicker

Colaptes auratus

Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 18 habitats.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 67 counties
Habitats: 18

Male Northern Flicker, whole bird — **Male**. no rights reserved. CC0. iNaturalist photo 675989599. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 67 counties
Habitats: 18
Habitat models: Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 18

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

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SummerWinterSuccessional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea ModifierRegional / 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.

SummerWinterSouthern 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; Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp; South Florida Bayhead Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp; South Florida Cypress Dome; 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 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.

SummerWinterSouth Florida Hardwood Hammock; Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock; Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock

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.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

SummerWinterAtlantic 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

Florida scrub

Evergreen scrub oaks, sand pine and rosemary on deep, white, drought-prone sand ridges, burned rarely but intensely; distinct from the longleaf and turkey oak sandhills.

SummerWinter

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

SummerWinterSouthwest 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

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier; South Florida Pine Flatwoods; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods; Central Florida Pine Flatwoods

Pine savannas

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

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods

Pocosins and bay forests

Dense evergreen shrub wetlands and bay forests on wet, acid peat of the Coastal Plain.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall

Sandhills

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

SummerWinterFlorida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier

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.

SummerWinterDeciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Florida Dry PrairieLimestone prairie. Shown: Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Developed, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Other habitats in its models (180)

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

Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
Developed, Medium Intensity Summer and winter.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern Appalachian Granitic Dome Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Granite Flatrock Summer and winter.
Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer and winter.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer and winter.
Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter.
North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer and winter.
North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer and winter.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer and winter.
Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer and winter.
Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer and winter.
East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
South Florida Pine Rockland Summer and winter.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer and winter.
Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer and winter.
Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer and winter.
Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Summer and winter.
Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer and winter.
Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer and winter.
Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer and winter.
Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Summer and winter.
Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer and winter.
East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter.
North-Central Oak Barrens Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer and winter.
Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer and winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin 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, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer and winter.
Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer and winter.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer and winter.
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter.
Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest 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.
Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
Cumberland Riverscour Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
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 Summer and winter.
Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer and winter.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer and winter.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.