Bird
Horned Grebe
Podiceps auritus
A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 56 of 64 parishes and 7 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 56 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 7

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 56 of 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.
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.
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.
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 (27)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore 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 Winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Winter: does not nest here, in 56 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 169
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Longleaf PinePinus palustris
- Platanthera blephariglottis var. conspicuaPlatanthera blephariglottis var. conspicua
- Laurel OakQuercus laurifolia
- Rose Pitcherplant; Rose Pitcher PlantSarracenia rosea
- Lizard's-tailSaururus cernuus
- Laurel GreenbrierSmilax laurifolia
- Swamp RedbayTamala palustris
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Poison SumacToxicodendron vernix
- Harper's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris scabrifolia
- Carolina Red MapleAcer rubrum var. trilobum
- Agalinis filicaulisAgalinis filicaulis
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- New York FernAmauropelta noveboracensis
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- Narrowleaf BluestemAndropogon perangustatus
- Longleaf Three-awnAristida palustris
- Red ChokeberryAronia arbutifolia
- Switch CaneArundinaria tecta
- Red MilkweedAsclepias rubra
- Athyrium filix-feminaAthyrium filix-femina
- Texas ScrewstemBartonia texana
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
Wildlife 255
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
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
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 Horned Grebe Slow streams only
- 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)






































