Bird
Western Kingbird
Tyrannus verticalis
A winter visitor to Florida, found in 32 of 67 counties and 4 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 32 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 32 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 4
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (12)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
- Developed, High Intensity Summer.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer and winter.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Winter.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Winter: does not nest here, in 32 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 104
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipesMuhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes
- Splitbeard BluestemAndropogon ternarius
- Pineland Golden-trumpetAngadenia berteroi
- Tall ThreeawnAristida patula
- ChristmasberryCrossopetalum ilicifolium
- Pineland CrotonCroton linearis
- Twospike CrabgrassDigitaria pauciflora
- Porter's SandmatEuphorbia porteriana
- Sand FlaxLinum arenicola
- Small's FlaxLinum smallii
- Small-leaf SquarestemMelanthera parvifolia
- Cabbage PalmettoSabal palmetto
- South Florida Little BluestemSchizachyrium rhizomatum
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Sorghastrum secundumSorghastrum secundum
- Everglades Key PencilflowerStylosanthes calcicola
- Florida Mock GamagrassTripsacum floridanum
- Aletris bracteataAletris bracteata
- Mexican AlvaradoaAlvaradoa amorphoides
- Andropogon brachystachyusAndropogon brachystachyus
- Maritime BluestemAndropogon glomeratus var. pumilus
- Maidenhair Pineland FernAnemia adiantifolia
- Wright's Pineland FernAnemia wrightii
- Blodgett's SilverbushArgythamnia argothamnoides
Wildlife 273
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Western Kingbird
- 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)


























