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White-faced Ibis

Plegadis chihi

Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in 63 of 64 parishes, across 6 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
63 of 64 parishes
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
63 of 64 parishes
Habitats
6
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 6

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

1 of 6

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterUnconsolidated 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.

SummerWinter

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.

SummerWinter

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)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerWinterOnly within 4,000 m of water.Cultivated Cropland
Other habitats in its models (41)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter, only within 4,000 m of water.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
  • Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 4,000 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer, only within 4,000 m of water.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer and winter, only within 4,000 m of water.
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
  • North Pacific Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
  • Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer, only within 4,000 m of water.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer.
  • Columbia Plateau Vernal Pool Summer.
  • Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
  • California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Greasewood Flat Summer, only within 4,000 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
  • Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
  • North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Riparian Mesquite Bosque Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Year-round: nests here, in 38 of 64 parishes.
  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 34 of 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 271

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