Bird
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.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
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.
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.
- Garber's SandmatEuphorbia garberi
- Mangrove SpiderlilyHymenocallis latifolia
- Florida Fishpoison TreePiscidia piscipula
- Florida Keys BlackbeadPithecellobium keyense
- Sea OatsUniola paniculata
Wildlife 188
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Masked BoobySula dactylatra
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellata
- Reddish EgretEgretta rufescens
- RedheadAythya americana
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Roseate SpoonbillPlatalea ajaja
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Sooty Tern
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)