Bird
Ovenbird
Seiurus aurocapilla
A winter visitor to Florida, found in all 67 counties and 10 habitats.
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 10

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 10
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
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.


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.
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.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
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.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
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.
Other habitats in its models (64)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- 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.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- 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.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Mesic 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.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Maritime Forest 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 Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier 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.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Winter.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
- 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 Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 34 of 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 38 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 471
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Acroporium smalliiAcroporium smallii
- Southern MagnoliaMagnolia grandiflora
- Cabbage PalmettoSabal palmetto
- Tough BumeliaSideroxylon tenax
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- Sweetbay MagnoliaMagnolia virginiana
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- Sand Live OakQuercus geminata
- Water OakQuercus nigra
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- SugarberryCeltis laevigata
- Ctenium floridanumCtenium floridanum
- American BeechFagus grandifolia
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Partridge-berryMitchella repens
- Spruce Pine; Walters Pine; Cedar PinePinus glabra
- Laurel OakQuercus laurifolia
- Scrub PalmettoSabal etonia
- Dwarf PalmettoSabal minor
- Poison-ivyToxicodendron radicans
- MuscadineVitis rotundifolia
Wildlife 256
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Short-tailed HawkButeo brachyurus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Shiny CowbirdMolothrus bonariensis
- Spot-breasted OrioleIcterus pectoralis
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Ovenbird
- 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)











































