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White-faced Ibis

Plegadis chihi

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Year-round in Florida, breeding, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 7 habitats found here.

Seasons here
Year-round
Breeding
Breeding
Range
3 of 67 counties
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Seasons in Florida
Year-round
Breeding
Breeding
Counties in known range
3 of 67
Habitat models
Summer, 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 Summer model Winter model

Habitats in Florida 7

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

1 of 7

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
Summer and winterOpen Water (Fresh)Regional / 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.

Summer and winterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

Summer and winter

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.

Summer and winter

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

Summer and winterMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

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.

Summer and winterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Summer and winter. Only within 4,000 m of waterCultivated Cropland
Other habitats in its models (40)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter. Only within 4,000 m of water
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer
  • Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Summer. Only within 4,000 m of water
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer. Only within 4,000 m of water
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer and winter. Only within 4,000 m of water
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer and winter
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer
  • North Pacific Bog and Fen Summer
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer and winter
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Summer and winter
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter
  • Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer
  • Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer and winter
  • Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer. Only within 4,000 m of water
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer
  • Columbia Plateau Vernal Pool Summer
  • Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer and winter
  • Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer
  • California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Greasewood Flat Summer. Only within 4,000 m of water
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer
  • Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer
  • Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland 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
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer
  • Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer

Model settings

Settings in the USGS model, not field measurements.

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

  • Year-round. Breeding and nonbreeding. Range includes 3 of 67 counties

Also found in this habitat

Plants 53

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

Wildlife 276

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