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Ruddy Duck

Oxyura jamaicensis

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in all 64 parishes and 5 habitats.

Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 5

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

1 of 5

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 tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

Winter

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)
Other habitats in its models (28)

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

  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 1 of 64 parishes.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 64 parishes.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 35

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

Wildlife 236

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