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.
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- American CootFulica americana
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
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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.