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Buff-bellied Hummingbird

Amazilia yucatanensis

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 39 of 64 parishes and 6 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
39 of 64 parishes
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
39 of 64 parishes
Habitats
6
Habitat models
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.

1 of 6

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.

Winter

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

WinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

WinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

WinterMississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

WinterDeveloped, Open Space

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.

WinterDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (27)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.

  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Winter.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Winter.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Winter.
  • South Texas Lomas Winter.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Floodplain Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 39 of 64 parishes.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 90

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 265

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources