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Wilson's Snipe

Gallinago delicata

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in all 64 parishes and 6 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
6
Habitat models
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.

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

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.

Winter

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

WinterMississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; Red River Large Floodplain Forest; Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest

Swamps

Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

WinterLower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier; Mississippi River Bottomland Depression

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterOnly within 60 m of water.Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (51)

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

  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter, only within 60 m of water.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter, only within 60 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Winter, only within 60 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter, only within 60 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter, only within 60 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter, only within 60 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter, only within 60 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter, only within 60 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Winter.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 64 parishes.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 219

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 278

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.

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