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Gadwall

Anas strepera

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in all 64 parishes and 7 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
7
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Louisiana 7

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 7

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

Winter

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

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

WinterRed River Large Floodplain Forest; Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest

Freshwater marshes

Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.

WinterTexas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

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.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (22)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (13)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Winter.
Northeast (1)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Land cover and other classes (8)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

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

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 124

Plant genera in its diet records (19)
  • Ruppia Leaves. 4 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Cyperus Seeds. 3 diet records. 32 native plants in Louisiana
  • Eleocharis Leaves. 3 diet records. 35 native plants in Louisiana
  • Distichlis Leaves. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Lachnanthes Seeds and roots. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Scirpus 2 diet records. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Bolboschoenus Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Ceratophyllum Leaves. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Chara Leaves. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Echinochloa 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Lemna Leaves. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Louisiana
  • Leptochloa Leaves. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Myriophyllum Leaves. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Nyssa 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Panicum Seeds. 1 diet record. 12 native plants in Louisiana
  • Persicaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 10 native plants in Louisiana
  • Potamogeton Leaves. 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Louisiana
  • Stuckenia Leaves. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Zannichellia Leaves. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 128

Plants 84

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Louisiana

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 169

Plants 20

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Louisiana

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 107

Plants 267

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources