Ovenbird 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 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.

Winter

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

WinterHarvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

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; West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

WinterMississippi Delta Maritime Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest; West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest

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.

SummerWinterDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation

Other habitats in its models (69)

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

In Louisiana 2

West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.

Elsewhere in the South (37)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Winter.
Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter.
Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer.
Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer and winter.
Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.
Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood 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 and winter.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Winter.
Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer and winter.
Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.

Northeast (5)

Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Maritime Forest Winter.
Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.

Midwest (5)

North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.

Land cover and other classes (20)

Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Winter.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.