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Snail Kite

Rostrhamus sociabilis

Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in 22 of 67 counties, across 6 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
22 of 67 counties
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
22 of 67 counties
Habitats
6
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 6

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

1 of 6

Freshwater marshes

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
Year-roundSouth Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh; Floridian Highlands Freshwater MarshRegional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
Year-roundOpen Water (Fresh)Regional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. 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

Swamps

Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.South Florida Bayhead Swamp; South Florida 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.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.South Florida Hardwood Hammock
Other habitats in its models (3)

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

  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Year-round.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Year-round: nests here, in 22 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 182

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

Wildlife 264

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