Bird
Black-necked Stilt
Himantopus mexicanus
Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in 56 of 64 parishes, across 6 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 56 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 6

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 56 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 6
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 6
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
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.
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.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
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.
Other habitats in its models (27)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer and winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Year-round: nests here, in 26 of 64 parishes.
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 35 of 64 parishes.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 22 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 85
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- PondberryLindera melissifolia
- Scaleleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis aphylla
- Agalinis filicaulisAgalinis filicaulis
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- Narrowleaf BluestemAndropogon perangustatus
- Longleaf Three-awnAristida palustris
- Switch CaneArundinaria tecta
- Red MilkweedAsclepias rubra
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Southern BluethreadBurmannia capitata
- Bearded Grass-pinkCalopogon barbatus
- Pale Grass-pinkCalopogon pallidus
- Shoreline SedgeCarex hyalinolepis
- Carphephorus pseudoliatrisCarphephorus pseudoliatris
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- LeConte's ThistleCirsium lecontei
- Toothache GrassCtenium aromaticum
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Erectleaf WitchgrassDichanthelium erectifolium
- Rough WitchgrassDichanthelium leucothrix
- Drosera tracyiDrosera tracyi
- Slim SpikerushEleocharis elongata
- Texas PipewortEriocaulon texense
Wildlife 237
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Black-necked Stilt
- 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)





































