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Spotted Sandpiper

Actitis macularius

A winter visitor to Florida, found in all 67 counties and 19 habitats.

Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
19

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
19
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Florida 19

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

1 of 19

Freshwater marshes

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
SummerWinterSouth 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
SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural LakeshoreRegional / 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.

Swamps

Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp
SummerWinterSouthern 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; 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; Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation; Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach; Southwest Florida Beach; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland; 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.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

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

WinterSouthern 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.

Winter

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.

Winter

Pine savannas

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

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Pocosins and bay forests

Dense evergreen shrub wetlands and bay forests on wet, acid peat of the Coastal Plain.

SummerAtlantic 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

Prairies and grasslands

Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County
WinterOnly within 250 m of water.Florida Dry PrairieLimestone prairie. Shown: Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

SummerOnly within 250 m of water.Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerWinterOnly within 250 m of water.Developed, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

SummerOnly within 250 m of water.Deciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (355)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Barren Land Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Active and Stabilized Dune Summer and winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Summer.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
  • Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
  • Great Lakes Dune Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Summer and winter.
  • North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Summer and winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer and winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Wash Summer and winter.
  • North Pacific Serpentine Barren Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Barrens Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer and winter.
  • Geysers and Hot Springs Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Oak Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Mixed Oak Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Curl-leaf Mountain Mahogany Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Maritime Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Lower Montane Black Oak-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Red Fir Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Dry Douglas-fir-(Madrone) Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Mixed Evergreen Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Aspen-Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Lowland Mixed Hardwood-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Mesic Serpentine Woodland and Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central and Southern California Mixed Evergreen Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Columbia Plateau Western Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Subalpine Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Klamath-Siskiyou Lower Montane Serpentine Mixed Conifer Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Klamath-Siskiyou Upper Montane Serpentine Mixed Conifer Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Dry-Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • California Montane Jeffrey Pine-(Ponderosa Pine) Woodland Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Maritime Dry-Mesic Douglas-fir-Western Hemlock Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Mountain Hemlock Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Woodland and Parkland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Foothill Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland Summer.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine Dry-Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Sierra Nevada Subalpine Lodgepole Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Boreal Jack Pine-Black Spruce Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Laurentian Jack Pine-Red Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Middle Rocky Mountain Montane Douglas-fir Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Poor-Site Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • California Coastal Closed-Cone Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Sierran-Intermontane Desert Western White Pine-White Fir Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Dry-Mesic Silver Fir-Western Hemlock-Douglas-fir Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Cascades Oak-Ponderosa Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North Pacific Wooded Volcanic Flowage Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • California Coastal Redwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Cascades Mesic Montane Mixed-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Hypermaritime Sitka Spruce Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Maritime Mesic Subalpine Parkland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Maritime Mesic-Wet Douglas-fir-Western Hemlock Forest Summer.
  • North Pacific Mesic Western Hemlock-Silver Fir Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern California Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Hypermaritime Western Red-cedar-Western Hemlock Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Alpine Fell-Field Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Dry and Mesic Alpine Dwarf-Shrubland, Fell-field and Meadow Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Acadian-Appalachian Alpine Tundra Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Sandhill Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Foothill Conifer Wooded Steppe Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Columbia Plateau Low Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • California Montane Woodland and Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • California Xeric Serpentine Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Great Basin Semi-Desert Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mogollon Chaparral Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern and Central California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Coahuilan Chaparral Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • California Central Valley Mixed Oak Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • California Coastal Live Oak Woodland and Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • California Lower Montane Blue Oak-Foothill Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern California Oak Woodland and Savanna Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Laurentian Pine-Oak Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Klamath-Siskiyou Xeromorphic Serpentine Savanna and Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Shrubland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Juniper Savanna Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Madrean Juniper Savanna Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Savanna Summer.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Great Lakes Alvar Summer.
  • Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Columbia Plateau Scabland Shrubland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Wyoming Basins Dwarf Sagebrush Shrubland and Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Colorado Plateau Sand Shrubland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Montane Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Alpine Dry Tundra Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Dry Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Upper Montane Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Summer.
  • California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • California Northern Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Llano Uplift Acidic Forest, Woodland and Glade Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Hypermaritime Shrub and Herbaceous Headland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • North Pacific Herbaceous Bald and Bluff Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Recently Chained Pinyon-Juniper Areas Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
  • Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer and winter, only within 250 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.
  • 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.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • 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.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Summer.
  • North Pacific Hardwood-Conifer Swamp Summer and winter.
  • Northern Pacific Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
  • Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer and winter.
  • Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
  • North Pacific Bog and Fen Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Summer and winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Lowland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer and winter.
  • Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Plateau Vernal Pool Summer and winter.
  • 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 Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
  • Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • North Pacific Lowland Riparian Forest and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • North Pacific Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
  • Mississippi River Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
  • Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Woodland 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 Winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
  • Red River Large Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Seep Summer.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
  • Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
  • North American Warm Desert Riparian Systems Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer and winter.
  • Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 9 of 67 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 881

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

Wildlife 287

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