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Western Sandpiper

Calidris mauri

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Winter in Florida, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 6 habitats found here.

Seasons here
Winter
Breeding
Nonbreeding
Range
67 of 67 counties
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Seasons in Florida
Winter
Breeding
Nonbreeding
Counties in known range
67 of 67
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

Southeast habitat models (USGS, 2001 land cover). The bird is not in every place a habitat occurs. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models Winter model

Habitats in Florida 6

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. Shared habitat, not food.

1 of 6

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
WinterOpen Water (Fresh); Atlantic 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterAtlantic 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 and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

WinterCentral 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.

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

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.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (11)

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

  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter
  • Louisiana Beach Winter
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter

Habitat names: NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0.

Seasons in Florida

Modeled range from USGS maps (2001), by watershed. Not sighting records. Migratory gives no dates. USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps

  • Winter. Nonbreeding. Range includes 67 of 67 counties

Also found in this habitat

Plants 226

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

Wildlife 268

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