Bird
White Ibis
Eudocimus albus
Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 14 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 14

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 14
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 14
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.


Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)





Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
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.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Tidal forests and thickets of red, black and white mangrove along sheltered tropical and subtropical shores.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Dense evergreen shrub wetlands and bay forests on wet, acid peat of the Coastal Plain.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
Other habitats in its models (28)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida. Those recorded in Florida first, the rest by region.
In Florida 1
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.
Elsewhere in the South (12)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
Northeast (3)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (12)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Year-round: nests here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in its main habitats
Its main habitats in Florida, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.
Swamps
Birds 93
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- White-crowned PigeonPatagioenas leucocephala
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Mangrove CuckooCoccyzus minor
Plants 353
- May HawthornCrataegus aestivalis
- Carolina AshFraxinus caroliniana
- Water HickoryCarya aquatica
- Bent SedgeCarex styloflexa
- Cypress-swamp SedgeCarex joorii
- Dark-green SedgeCarex venusta
- Ravenfoot SedgeCarex crus-corvi
- Weak Stellate SedgeCarex seorsa
- White-edge SedgeCarex debilis
- Iris hexagonaIris hexagona
- Swamp ButtercupRanunculus hispidus var. nitidus
- Drooping BulrushScirpus lineatus
Maritime forests and thickets
Birds 52
- Black-whiskered VireoVireo altiloquus
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Red-crowned ParrotAmazona viridigenalis
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- White-crowned PigeonPatagioenas leucocephala
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Mangrove CuckooCoccyzus minor
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
Plants 48
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Asimina angustifoliaAsimina angustifolia
- Forestiera godfreyiForestiera godfreyi
- Carolina Laurel CherryPrunus caroliniana
- Tough BumeliaSideroxylon tenax
- Slash PinePinus elliottii
- Dune Ground-cherryPhysalis walteri
- Glowing NightshadeSolanum chenopodioides
- Southern MagnoliaMagnolia grandiflora
- Calcium-fleeing SedgeCarex calcifugens
- Florida SedgeCarex nigromarginata var. floridana
- Ovateleaf FlatsedgeCyperus ovatus
Salt and brackish marshes
Birds 92
- Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoa
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus
- Wilson's PloverCharadrius wilsonia
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Seaside SparrowAmmodramus maritimus
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
Plants 56
- Perennial Saltmarsh AsterSymphyotrichum tenuifolium
- Wand LoosestrifeLythrum lineare
- Sea OxeyeBorrichia frutescens
- Cyperus planifoliusCyperus planifolius
- Delta BulrushSchoenoplectus deltarum
- Olney's ThreesquareSchoenoplectus americanus
- Saltmarsh CordgrassSpartina alterniflora
- Whorled DropseedSporobolus pyramidatus
- ShoregrassDistichlis littoralis
- Perennial GlasswortSalicornia ambigua
- Godfrey's SpiderlilyHymenocallis godfreyi
- Smallfruit BeggarticksBidens mitis
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for White Ibis
- 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)


















































