Bird

Alder Flycatcher

Empidonax alnorum

A summer resident that nests in North Carolina. Found in 31 of 100 counties, across 15 habitats.

Here: Summer and on migration
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 31 of 100 counties
Habitats: 15

Male Alder Flycatcher, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Kalvin Chan, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 394200859. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Summer and on migration
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 31 of 100 counties
Habitats: 15
Habitat models: Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 15

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

1 of 15

SummerSouth-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; South-Central Interior Large FloodplainNamed place / source context. Shown: Congaree Swamp National Monument floodplain forest, South Carolina; representative illustration, no exact viewpoint, a neighboring state.fallen (uprooted) tree, John Dawson, by1988. Public domain. Source record.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland SystemsRegional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

SummerUtility Swath - HerbaceousLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr)*Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"*, Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; South-Central Interior Small Stream and RiparianFrederic Edwin Church, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina (1865-70): a boulder-strewn mountain river under autumn-coloured ridges. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. North Carolina mountains (Frederic Edwin Church, oil sketch 1865-70; Cooper Hewitt)*Drawing, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina, 1865–70*, Frederic Edwin Church, 1865-1870. Public domain. Source record.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems; Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression SwampNamed place / source context. Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, as titled by Museum of Fine Arts Boston; nineteenth-century artistic interpretationView, Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, Regis Francois Gignoux, 1850. Public domain. Source record.

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.

Summer

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Mountain balds

Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.

SummerSouthern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier

Mountain bogs and fens

Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.

Summer

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation

Wet meadows

Open, wet, grassy or sedgy ground that is not a bog.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern and Central Appalachian Cove ForestRegional / representative. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee; representative habitat composite, not a documented exact viewpointCove hardwood forest, Hynes, Robert 'Bob', by 2012. Public domain. Source record.

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest

Other habitats in its models (29)

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

Elsewhere in the South (7)

Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.

Northeast (7)

Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.

Midwest (3)

Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.

Land cover and other classes (12)

Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
Recently Burned Summer.
Recently Burned Forest Summer.
Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
Recently Logged Areas Summer.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

Migratory: does not nest here, in 27 of 100 counties.
Summer: nests here, in 20 of 100 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, 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.