Bird
Black Tern
Chlidonias niger
Passes through Louisiana on migration. Found in all 64 parishes, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 2

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 2
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.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Other habitats in its models (1)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Migratory: does not nest here, in all 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 215
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
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 Black Tern Elevation up to 1,540 m
- 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)

























