Bird

Snowy Egret

Egretta thula

Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 17 habitats.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 67 counties
Habitats: 17

Male Snowy Egret, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Wes Copas, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 586152157. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 67 counties
Habitats: 17
Habitat models: Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 17

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

1 of 17

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier; South 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.

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; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall; Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp; 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 dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Southeast Florida Beach; South Florida Shell Hash Beach; Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach; Southwest Florida Beach; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

SummerWinter

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.

SummerWinterCentral Florida Herbaceous Pondshore; Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression 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.

SummerWinter

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

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

SummerWinterFlorida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Mangrove swamps

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

SummerWinter

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier; South Florida Pine Flatwoods; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods; Central Florida Pine Flatwoods; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods

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

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh; Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Other habitats in its models (106)

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

Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Summer and winter.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Summer and winter.
Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer and winter.
Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Summer and winter.
North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter.
Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer and winter, only within 120 m of water.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
North Pacific Maritime Eelgrass Bed Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
Mediterranean California Eelgrass Bed Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
North Pacific Shrub Swamp Summer and winter.
Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer and winter, only within 120 m of water.
North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer and winter.
North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer.
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.
Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Summer and winter.
South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer and winter.
North Pacific Hardwood-Conifer Swamp Summer and winter.
Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
North Pacific Bog and Fen Summer and winter.
Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer and winter.
Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Summer and winter.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Lowland Summer and winter, only within 120 m of water.
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer and winter.
Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer and winter.
Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer and winter.
Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
Columbia Plateau Vernal Pool Summer.
Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer and winter.
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
Inter-Mountain Basins Greasewood Flat Summer, only within 120 m of water.
North Pacific Lowland Riparian Forest and Shrubland Summer and winter.
North Pacific Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter.
Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter.
Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
North American Warm Desert Riparian Mesquite Bosque Summer and winter.
North American Warm Desert Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer and winter.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer and winter.
Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter, only within 120 m of water.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer and winter, only within 120 m of water.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.