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Sooty Tern

Onychoprion fuscatus

A summer resident that nests in Florida. Found in 1 of 67 counties, across 2 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
1 of 67 counties
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
1 of 67 counties
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 2

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

1 of 2

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); South Florida Shell Hash Beach

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.

SummerOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (3)

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

  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Summer: nests here, in 1 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 5

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

Wildlife 188

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