Buff-bellied Hummingbird in Louisiana

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.

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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. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.

In Louisiana 2

West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.

Elsewhere in the South (10)

Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Winter.
East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
South Texas Lomas Winter.
Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Winter.
Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Winter.
Tamaulipan Floodplain Winter.
Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Winter.
Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Winter.

Midwest (1)

North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.

Land cover and other classes (14)

Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
Recently Burned Winter.
Recently Burned Forest Winter.
Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
Recently Logged Areas Winter.
South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Winter.
Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Winter.
Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Winter.
Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

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

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.