Habitat in Louisiana
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. NatureServe
- Plants
- 8
- Birds
- 98
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Louisiana. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 8
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Shoal-grassHalodule wrightii
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Horned PondweedZannichellia palustris
- American WaterwortElatine americana
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Widgeon-grassRuppia maritima
- Carolina GrasswortLilaeopsis carolinensis
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
Most characteristic birds of this habitat 87
Ranked by how much of their habitat model this habitat is.
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Neotropic CormorantPhalacrocorax brasilianus
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Roseate SpoonbillPlatalea ajaja
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- American CootFulica americana
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
Widespread birds also seen here (11)
Found in many habitats here, so not listed above.
Sources
- NatureServe, ecological systems of the United States habitat description
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat text phone app
- NC Parks species accounts
- USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (reviewed notes)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001)
- NatureServe Explorer ecological systems (CC BY 4.0)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.