Snowy Plover in Louisiana

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 3

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

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Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

SummerWinterOpen 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.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterBeside its main habitat.Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Upper Texas Coast Beach; Louisiana Beach

Other habitats in its models (24)

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

Elsewhere in the South (5)

Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.

Midwest (2)

Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer and winter.

West (10)

Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer, beside its main habitat.
Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Sonora-Mojave Creosotebush-White Bursage Desert Scrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.

Land cover and other classes (7)

Barren Land Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Badland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

Year-round: nests here, in 5 of 64 parishes.
Winter: does not nest here, in 33 of 64 parishes.

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.