Bird
Red-throated Loon
Gavia stellata
A winter visitor to Florida, found in 2 of 67 counties and 7 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 7

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 7
- Habitat models
- 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.

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
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.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
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.
Other habitats in its models (6)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Winter: does not nest here, in 2 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 87
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- White Arrow-arumPeltandra sagittifolia
- Green Arrow-arumPeltandra virginica
- Swamp RedbayPersea palustris
- American SycamorePlatanus occidentalis
- Rosy CamphorweedPluchea baccharis
- Camphor PlucheaPluchea camphorata
- Sand Live OakQuercus geminata
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Red MangroveRhizophora mangle
- Elliott's BeaksedgeRhynchospora elliottii
- Narrow-fruit Horned BeaksedgeRhynchospora inundata
- Pineland BeaksedgeRhynchospora perplexa
- Coastal BeaksedgeRhynchospora pleiantha
- Cabbage PalmettoSabal palmetto
- Threadleaf ArrowheadSagittaria filiformis
- Quillwort ArrowheadSagittaria isoetiformis
- Broadleaf ArrowheadSagittaria latifolia
- Dwarf ArrowheadSagittaria subulata
- Dwarf GlasswortSalicornia bigelovii
- Olney's ThreesquareSchoenoplectus americanus
- Pink BogbuttonSclerolepis uniflora
- Florida SkullcapScutellaria floridana
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Spartina bakeriSpartina bakeri
Wildlife 251
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
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 Red-throated Loon Brackish or salt water only
- 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)








































