Bird
Horned Lark
Eremophila alpestris
Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in all 64 parishes, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 3
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (33)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Barren Land Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer and winter.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
- Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer and winter.
- Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Year-round: nests here, in 36 of 64 parishes.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 59 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 149
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- Little Tooth SedgeCarex microdonta
- Snow-on-the-prairieEuphorbia bicolor
- Beach Morning-gloryIpomoea imperati
- Ipomoea pes-capraeIpomoea pes-caprae
- Hair-awn MuhlyMuhlenbergia capillaris
- Beach Evening-primroseOenothera drummondii
- Bitter PanicgrassPanicum amarum
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Gulfdune PaspalumPaspalum monostachyum
- Little BluestemSchizachyrium maritimum
- Shoreline Sea-purslaneSesuvium portulacastrum
- Yellow IndiangrassSorghastrum nutans
- Florida MapleAcer floridanum
- Chalk MapleAcer leucoderme
- Amsonia ludovicianaAmsonia ludoviciana
- Maritime BluestemAndropogon tenuispatheus
- Splitbeard BluestemAndropogon ternarius
- Arrowfeather Three-awnAristida purpurascens
- Butterfly MilkweedAsclepias tuberosa
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
Wildlife 238
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
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 Lark
- 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)




































