Bird
Blue-winged Teal
Anas discors
Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in all 64 parishes, across 6 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 6

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 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.
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.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Other habitats in its models (34)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie 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 Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Year-round: nests here, in 23 of 64 parishes.
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 23 of 64 parishes.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 49 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 182
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- PondberryLindera melissifolia
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Virginia SweetspireItea virginica
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Overcup OakQuercus lyrata
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Scaleleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis aphylla
- Agalinis filicaulisAgalinis filicaulis
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- Narrowleaf BluestemAndropogon perangustatus
- Longleaf Three-awnAristida palustris
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- Switch CaneArundinaria tecta
- Red MilkweedAsclepias rubra
- Small BeggarticksBidens discoidea
- Smallfruit BeggarticksBidens mitis
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Southern BluethreadBurmannia capitata
- Bearded Grass-pinkCalopogon barbatus
- Pale Grass-pinkCalopogon pallidus
- Prickly Bog SedgeCarex atlantica
- Cypress-knee SedgeCarex decomposita
Wildlife 226
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
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 Blue-winged Teal
- 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)







































