Bird

Western Snowy Plover

Charadrius nivosus nivosus

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 33 of 64 parishes and 3 habitats.

Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 33 of 64 parishes
Habitats: 3

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At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 33 of 64 parishes
Habitats: 3
Habitat models: Winter

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.

1 of 3

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)

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

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

Other habitats in its models (21)

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 Winter, beside its main habitat.
South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southwest Florida Beach Winter, beside its main habitat.
Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Winter, beside its main habitat.

Midwest (2)

Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Winter, beside its main habitat.

West (8)

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

Land cover and other classes (6)

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

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

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.