Bird
White Ibis
Eudocimus albus
Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in all 64 parishes, across 9 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 9

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 9
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 9
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.
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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
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.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.
Other habitats in its models (45)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Year-round: nests here, in all 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 345
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Virginia SweetspireItea virginica
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- Swamp TupeloNyssa biflora
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Water HickoryCarya aquatica
- SugarberryCeltis laevigata
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Coastal Sweet-pepperbushClethra alnifolia
- Pumpkin AshFraxinus profunda
- Shining FetterbushLyonia lucida
- Southern MagnoliaMagnolia grandiflora
- Sweetbay MagnoliaMagnolia virginiana
- Water TupeloNyssa aquatica
- Laurel OakQuercus laurifolia
- Overcup OakQuercus lyrata
- Lizard's-tailSaururus cernuus
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- Trumpet-creeperCampsis radicans
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
Wildlife 252
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
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 White Ibis
- 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)















































