Bird
Killdeer
Charadrius vociferus
Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in all 64 parishes, across 4 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 4
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
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 (90)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer and winter.
- Barren Land Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Summer.
- Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter.
- Great Lakes Dune Summer.
- 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.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
- Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer.
- Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Summer.
- North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Summer.
- Western Great Plains Badland Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Badland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Shale Badland Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Ash and Tuff Badland Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer.
- North Pacific Serpentine Barren Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Playa Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
- North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Pavement Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Volcanic Rockland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Fell-Field Summer.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer.
- Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub Steppe Summer.
- Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Dry Tundra Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer.
- North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Dry Grassland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Summer.
- North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
- Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
- Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer.
- Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Summer.
- California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer.
- 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.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer.
- North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Summer.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
- Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer and winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Year-round: nests here, in all 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 178
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Little Tooth SedgeCarex microdonta
- Snow-on-the-prairieEuphorbia bicolor
- Hair-awn MuhlyMuhlenbergia capillaris
- Little BluestemSchizachyrium maritimum
- Yellow IndiangrassSorghastrum nutans
- Florida MapleAcer floridanum
- Chalk MapleAcer leucoderme
- Amsonia ludovicianaAmsonia ludoviciana
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- Maritime BluestemAndropogon tenuispatheus
- Splitbeard BluestemAndropogon ternarius
- Arrowfeather Three-awnAristida purpurascens
- Butterfly MilkweedAsclepias tuberosa
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
- White Doll's-daisyBoltonia asteroides
- Sideoats GramaBouteloua curtipendula
- Wild HyacinthCamassia scilloides
- Whitetinge SedgeCarex albicans
Wildlife 244
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Long-billed CurlewNumenius americanus
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
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 Killdeer
- 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)






































