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Snail Kite

Rostrhamus sociabilis

Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in 22 of 67 counties, across 7 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
22 of 67 counties
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
22 of 67 counties
Habitats
7
Habitat models
Year-round

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.

1 of 7

Freshwater marshes

The Great Florida Marsh
Year-roundSouth Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh; Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh; South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator HoleMartin Johnson Heade, The Great Florida Marsh (1886): open marsh and lily-dotted water beneath live oaks and cabbage palms. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Florida (Heade, The Great Florida Marsh, 1886; North Carolina Museum of Art)The Great Florida Marsh, Martin Johnson Heade, 1886. Public domain. Source record.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Florida Sunrisetitle QS:P1476,en:"Florida Sunrise"label QS:Len,"Florida Sunrise"
Year-roundOpen Water (Fresh)Martin Johnson Heade, Florida Sunrise: still water and a palm-fringed shore glowing at dawn. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Florida (Heade, Florida Sunrise, c. 1890-1900)Florida Sunrisetitle QS:P1476,en:"Florida Sunrise"label QS:Len,"Florida Sunrise", Martin Johnson Heade, c. 1890-1900. Public domain. Source record.

Depression ponds and limesinks

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

Year-roundCentral Florida Herbaceous Pondshore

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.

Year-round

Wet meadows

Open, wet, grassy or sedgy ground that is not a bog.

Year-roundSouth Florida Wet Marl Prairie

Coastal Plain hammocks

In the Jungle, Florida
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.South 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.

Swamps

Florida, Sunset on the Ocklawaha
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.South 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.
Other habitats in its models (1)

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

In Florida 1

  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Year-round: nests here, in 22 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.

Freshwater marshes

Birds 69

Plants 251

All of freshwater marshes in Florida

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 125

Plants 58

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Florida

Depression ponds and limesinks

Birds 50

Plants 124

All of depression ponds and limesinks in Florida

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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