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Piping Plover

Charadrius melodus

A winter visitor to Florida, found in 39 of 67 counties and 7 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
39 of 67 counties
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
39 of 67 counties
Habitats
7
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 7

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

1 of 7

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Southeast Florida Beach; South Florida Shell Hash Beach; Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach; Southwest Florida Beach; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal 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.

SummerWinter

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

SummerWinterFlorida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerWinterAtlantic 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

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Fresh)Regional / 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerWinterOnly within 60 m of water.Pasture/Hay

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.

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (38)

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

  • Barren Land Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Summer.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer and winter.
  • Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
  • Great Lakes Dune Summer.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Playa Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
  • Great Lakes Alvar Summer.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer.
  • Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 39 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 131

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

Wildlife 253

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.

Sources