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Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Archilochus colubris

Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 12 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
12

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
12
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 12

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

1 of 12

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
SummerWinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional 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.

Swamps

Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp
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; 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

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.

SummerWinter

Dry forests and woodlands

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

SummerSouthern 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

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

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

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerWinterDeveloped, Open Space

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
Other habitats in its models (117)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer and winter.
  • 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 Summer and winter.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest 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.
  • 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.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Summer and winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern 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.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
  • 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.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer.
  • 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.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer and winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin 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.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Year-round: nests here, in 7 of 67 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in 5 of 67 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in all 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 847

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

Wildlife 270

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