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Ring-necked Duck

Aythya collaris

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in all 64 parishes and 8 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
8

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
8
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 8

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

1 of 8

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
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; Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome; Mississippi River Bottomland DepressionJoseph 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

WinterMississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest; Red River Large Floodplain Forest

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.

WinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods; Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods; West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods

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)
Other habitats in its models (52)

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

Elsewhere in the South (33)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
  • South Florida Cypress Dome Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
Northeast (4)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Winter.
Land cover and other classes (15)
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

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

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 169

Plant genera in its diet records (28)
  • Cyperus Seeds and roots. 6 diet records. 32 native plants in Louisiana
  • Scirpus Seeds. 6 diet records. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Eleocharis 5 diet records. 35 native plants in Louisiana
  • Potamogeton Seeds. 5 diet records. 7 native plants in Louisiana
  • Ceratophyllum Seeds. 4 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Lachnanthes Seeds and roots. 4 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Myriophyllum Seeds. 4 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Polygonum Seeds. 4 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Chara Other parts. 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Echinochloa Seeds. 3 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Phalaris Seeds. 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Bolboschoenus Seeds. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Brasenia 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Nymphaea Seeds. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Panicum Seeds. 2 diet records. 12 native plants in Louisiana
  • Persicaria Seeds. 2 diet records. 10 native plants in Louisiana
  • Pinus 2 diet records. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Ruppia 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Sparganium Seeds. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Stuckenia Roots. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Zea Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Boehmeria 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Chenopodium Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Hypericum 1 diet record. 23 native plants in Louisiana
  • Lemna Leaves. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Louisiana
  • Leptochloa Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Morella 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sagittaria Roots. 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Louisiana

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.

Swamps

Birds 135

Plants 237

All of swamps in Louisiana

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 124

Plants 267

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Louisiana

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Birds 108

Plants 11

All of hardwood and oak flatwoods in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources