Least Flycatcher in Louisiana

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.

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WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East 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.

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.

SummerWinter

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerBeside its main habitat.Developed, Open Space

Other habitats in its models (61)

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

Elsewhere in the South (28)

Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Winter.
Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
South Florida Cypress Dome Winter.
South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
South Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer.
South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.
Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Winter.
Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Summer.
Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer.
Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.

Northeast (3)

Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.

Land cover and other classes (30)

Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer, beside its main habitat.
Recently Burned Summer, beside its main habitat.
Recently Burned Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Recently Burned Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Recently Logged Areas Summer, beside its main habitat.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Winter.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

Migratory: does not nest here, in all 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.