Habitat in North Carolina
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. NatureServe
- Plants
- 11
- Birds
- 95
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in North Carolina. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 11
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Shoal-grassHalodule wrightii
- Welsh MudwortLimosella australis
- Heartleaf PlantainPlantago cordata
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Horned PondweedZannichellia palustris
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Widgeon-grassRuppia maritima
- Carolina GrasswortLilaeopsis carolinensis
- American WaterwortElatine americana
- Small WaterwortElatine minima
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in North Carolina. Shared habitat, not food.
Most characteristic birds of this habitat 79
Ranked by how much of their habitat model this habitat is.
- Manx ShearwaterPuffinus puffinus
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
- RazorbillAlca torda
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Common MerganserMergus merganser
- Long-tailed DuckClangula hyemalis
- DovekieAlle alle
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Purple SandpiperCalidris maritima
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Eastern Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Royal TernThalasseus maximus
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- WilletTringa semipalmata
- BrantBranta bernicla
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellata
- RedheadAythya americana
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
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Widespread birds also seen here (16)
Found in many habitats here, so not listed above.
Sources
- NatureServe, ecological systems of the United States habitat description
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat text phone app
- NC Parks species accounts
- USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (reviewed notes)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001)
- NatureServe Explorer ecological systems (CC BY 4.0)
- Currituck Sound (4662743561), rickpilot_2000 (Flickr) habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.