Bird
Rufous Hummingbird
Selasphorus rufus
A winter visitor to Florida, found in 12 of 67 counties and 3 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 12 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 12 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Winter
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.

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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (7)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
- Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Winter.
- Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Winter.
- Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Winter: does not nest here, in 12 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 257
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Crested CaracaraCaracara cheriway
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Florida Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia floridana
- Florida Grasshoper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum floridanus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
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 Rufous Hummingbird
- 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)
























