Bird
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citrea
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.
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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
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.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Other habitats in its models (49)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water, for banks and other nest sites.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, only within 120 m of water, for banks and other nest sites.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water, for banks and other nest sites.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water, for banks and other nest sites.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer.
- Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Winter.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter, only within 120 m of water, for banks and other nest sites.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Winter: does not nest here, in 18 of 64 parishes.
- Summer: nests here, in 63 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 360
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Swamp CottonwoodPopulus heterophylla
- Marsh Mermaid-weedProserpinaca palustris
- White OakQuercus alba
- Swamp Post OakQuercus similis
- Mississippi ButtercupRanunculus laxicaulis
- Common GreenbrierSmilax rotundifolia
- Calico AsterSymphyotrichum lateriflorum
- Pond CypressTaxodium ascendens
- Southern Marsh St. John's-wortTriadenum tubulosum
- Three Birds OrchidTriphora trianthophora
- Cedar ElmUlmus crassifolia
- Slippery ElmUlmus rubra
- Box-elderAcer negundo
- Creeping SpotflowerAcmella oppositifolia var. repens
- Red BuckeyeAesculus pavia
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- Amsonia ludovicianaAmsonia ludoviciana
- Maritime BluestemAndropogon tenuispatheus
- American GroundnutApios americana
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
- River BirchBetula nigra
- Bearded BeggarticksBidens aristosa
- Small BeggarticksBidens discoidea
- Smallfruit BeggarticksBidens mitis
Wildlife 242
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
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 Prothonotary Warbler Slow streams only
- 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)












































