Bird
Roseate Tern
Sterna dougallii
A summer resident that nests in Florida. Found in 2 of 67 counties, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 3
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
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 (2)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
Seasons in Florida
- Summer: nests here, in 2 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 5
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Garber's SandmatEuphorbia garberi
- Mangrove SpiderlilyHymenocallis latifolia
- Florida Fishpoison TreePiscidia piscipula
- Florida Keys BlackbeadPithecellobium keyense
- Sea OatsUniola paniculata
Wildlife 250
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Wilson's PloverCharadrius wilsonia
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
- Yellow RailCoturnicops noveboracensis
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Yellow-throated VireoVireo flavifrons
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Roseate Tern 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)