Bird

Short-tailed Hawk

Buteo brachyurus

A summer resident that nests in Florida. Found in 44 of 67 counties, across 11 habitats.

Here: Summer
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 44 of 67 counties
Habitats: 11

Adult Short-tailed Hawk, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) Juan C. Espinosa, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 135614323. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Summer
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 44 of 67 counties
Habitats: 11
Habitat models: Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 11

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

1 of 11

SummerAtlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal WetlandGeorge Catlin, White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola (1834-35): high white dunes with scattered clumps of dune plants above the Gulf. Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola, FloridaWhite Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola, George Catlin (1796-1872), 1834-1835. Public domain. Source record.

SummerSouth Florida Hardwood HammockWinslow Homer, In the Jungle, Florida (1904): cabbage palms, saw palmetto and fallen trunks in a dense, shady hammock, with a wildcat in the branches. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Florida (Winslow Homer, In the Jungle, Florida, 1904)*In the Jungle, Florida*, Winslow Homer, 1904. Public domain. Source record.

SummerSouth Florida Bayhead Swamp; South Florida Cypress DomeFlorida, Sunset on the Ocklawaha (1899): a dark swamp-lined river at sunset, with cypress and hardwoods crowding both banks. Ocklawaha River, FloridaFlorida, Sunset on the Ocklawaha, Detroit Photographic Co. (chromolithograph), 1899. Public domain. Source record.

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.

Summer

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

SummerFlorida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Mangrove swamps

Tidal forests and thickets of red, black and white mangrove along sheltered tropical and subtropical shores.

Summer

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

SummerSouthwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock; Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock

SummerOnly within 1,000 m of water.South Florida Pine Flatwoods; Central Florida Pine FlatwoodsGeorge Inness, Georgia Pines (1890): tall, straight pines over an open, grassy floor in a south Georgia pine woods. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Georgia pine woods (George Inness, 1890; site not named), a neighboring state.Georgia Pines, George Inness (1825-1894), 1890. Public domain. Source record.

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerOnly within 1,000 m of water.East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest

Sandhills

Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire.

SummerOnly within 1,000 m of water.Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier

Other habitats in its models (11)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida. Those recorded in Florida first, the rest by region.

In Florida 2

South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer.
South Florida Pine Rockland Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.

Elsewhere in the South (2)

East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.

Land cover and other classes (7)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

Summer: nests here, in 44 of 67 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Florida, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.