Bird
Alder Flycatcher
Empidonax alnorum
Passes through Louisiana on migration. Found in all 64 parishes, across 4 habitats.
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 4
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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.
Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Tree plantations and managed pine
Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.
Other habitats in its models (44)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
- Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
- South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Migratory: does not nest here, in all 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 260
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Buff-bellied HummingbirdAmazilia yucatanensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Alder Flycatcher
- 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)

























