Bird
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatus
A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in all 64 parishes and 8 habitats.
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 8
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- 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.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
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.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
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.
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (32)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.
Elsewhere in the South (24)
- 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 Sea Island Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
Northeast (2)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Land cover and other classes (6)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 39 of 64 parishes.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 38 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 149
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Coastal Plain BeaksedgeRhynchospora stenophylla
- Ruellia noctifloraRuellia noctiflora
- Dwarf PalmettoSabal minor
- Sarracenia psittacinaSarracenia psittacina
- Rose Pitcherplant; Rose Pitcher PlantSarracenia rosea
- Little BluestemSchizachyrium maritimum
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Slender Sea-purslaneSesuvium maritimum
- Giant BristlegrassSetaria magna
- Yellow IndiangrassSorghastrum nutans
- Florida Ladies'-tressesSpiranthes floridana
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Stylisma villosaStylisma villosa
- Barrens Silky AsterSymphyotrichum pratense
- Swamp RedbayTamala palustris
- Pond CypressTaxodium ascendens
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Purple SandgrassTriplasis purpurea
- Eastern GamagrassTripsacum dactyloides
- Southern CattailTypha domingensis
- MuscadineVitis rotundifolia
- Carolina Yellow-eyed-grassXyris caroliniana
- Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris chapmanii
- Xyris drummondiiXyris drummondii
Wildlife 280
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American CootFulica americana
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 Semipalmated Plover
- 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)