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Glossy Ibis

Plegadis falcinellus

Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in 17 of 64 parishes, across 5 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
17 of 64 parishes
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
17 of 64 parishes
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 5

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

1 of 5

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress DomeJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874)The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

Year-roundUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

Year-roundOpen 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.

Year-roundOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundOnly within 120 m of water.Cultivated Cropland
Other habitats in its models (32)

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

Elsewhere in the South (24)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Year-round.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Year-round.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Year-round.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Year-round.
  • South Florida Cypress Dome Year-round.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Year-round.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Year-round.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round.
Northeast (2)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (6)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Year-round.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Year-round: nests here, in 17 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.

Swamps

Birds 118

Plants 237

All of swamps in Louisiana

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 128

Plants 84

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Louisiana

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 139

Plants 958

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources