Wood Duck in Louisiana

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 7

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

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SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp; Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome; 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.

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

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

SummerSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

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.

Summer

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

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

SummerWinterMississippi 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.

SummerWinterLower Mississippi River Flatwoods; West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Other habitats in its models (58)

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

Elsewhere in the South (26)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, only within 1,000 m of water, for banks and other nest sites.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer and winter.
Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.

Northeast (3)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.

Land cover and other classes (29)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer and winter.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

Year-round: nests here, in all 64 parishes.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 172

Gulfdune Paspalum
Paspalum monostachyum
Native
Thin Crowngrass
Paspalum setaceum
Grass or sedge. Native
Bull Crowngrass
Paspalum boscianum
Grass or sedge. Native
Early Crowngrass
Paspalum praecox
Grass or sedge. Native
Field Paspalum
Paspalum laeve
Grass or sedge. Native
Florida Paspalum
Paspalum floridanum
Grass or sedge. Native
Hairy Seed Paspalum
Paspalum pubiflorum var. glabrum
Grass or sedge. Native
Hairyseed Crowngrass
Paspalum pubiflorum
Grass or sedge. Native
Horsetail Crowngrass
Paspalum fluitans
Grass or sedge. Native
Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
Grass or sedge. Native
Mudbank Crowngrass
Paspalum dissectum
Grass or sedge. Native
Pitchfork Crowngrass
Paspalum bifidum
Grass or sedge. Native
Seashore Crowngrass
Paspalum vaginatum
Grass or sedge. Native
Erect Knotweed
Polygonum erectum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Tall Knotweed
Polygonum ramosissimum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Water-shield
Brasenia schreberi
Wildflower or fern. Native
Catchfly Cutgrass
Leersia lenticularis
Grass or sedge. Native
Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
Grass or sedge. Native
Southern Cutgrass
Leersia hexandra
Grass or sedge. Native
White Cutgrass
Leersia virginica
Grass or sedge. Native
Hall's Panicgrass
Panicum hallii var. filipes
Native
Panicum bergii
Panicum bergii
Native
Stalked Panicgrass
Panicum rigidulum subsp. elongatum
Grass or sedge. Native
Beaked Panicgrass
Panicum anceps
Grass or sedge. Native

Plant genera in its diet records (30)

Paspalum Seeds. 4 diet records. 13 native plants in Louisiana
Polygonum Seeds. 4 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
Aneilema Seeds. 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
Brasenia Seeds. 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
Leersia Seeds. 3 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
Panicum Seeds. 3 diet records. 12 native plants in Louisiana
Potamogeton Leaves. 3 diet records. 7 native plants in Louisiana
Vitis Seeds. 3 diet records. 7 native plants in Louisiana
Bidens Seeds. 2 diet records. 8 native plants in Louisiana
Echinochloa Seeds. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
Liquidambar Seeds. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
Nymphaea Seeds. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
Quercus Seeds. 2 diet records. 31 native plants in Louisiana
Rubus Fruit. 2 diet records. 5 native plants in Louisiana
Sagittaria Roots. 2 diet records. 7 native plants in Louisiana
Scleria Seeds. 2 diet records. 15 native plants in Louisiana
Spirodela Leaves. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
Taxodium Seeds. 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
Acer Seeds. 1 diet record. 10 native plants in Louisiana
Boehmeria Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
Cephalanthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
Forestiera Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
Glycine Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
Lemna Seeds. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Louisiana
Ludwigia Seeds. 1 diet record. 15 native plants in Louisiana
Planera Fruit. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
Sassafras Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
Triadenum Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
Ulmus Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Louisiana
Viburnum Seeds. 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Louisiana

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.