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Long-billed Dowitcher

Limnodromus scolopaceus

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 44 of 64 parishes and 9 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
44 of 64 parishes
Habitats
9

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
44 of 64 parishes
Habitats
9
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 9

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

1 of 9

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Upper Texas Coast Beach

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

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.

Winter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

WinterOpen 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.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Swamps

Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp; Mississippi River Bottomland Depression

Pine flatwoods

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

WinterOnly within 120 m of water.East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

WinterOnly within 120 m of water.West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie; Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterOnly within 120 m of water.Cultivated Cropland
Other habitats in its models (37)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.

  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
  • Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Winter.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 44 of 64 parishes.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 376

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 281

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources