Swainson's Warbler in Louisiana

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.

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SummerSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp; Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier; 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.

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

SummerMississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest; West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest; Red River Large Floodplain Forest; Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian 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.

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

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

SummerOnly within 250 m of water.Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerOnly within 250 m of water.East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest; West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest

Other habitats in its models (54)

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

In Louisiana 3

West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.

Elsewhere in the South (28)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer.
East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
South Florida Bayhead Swamp Summer.
South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer.
Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.

Northeast (4)

Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.

Land cover and other classes (19)

Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer.
Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

Summer: nests here, in all 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.