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American Pipit

Anthus rubescens

A winter visitor to North Carolina, found in all 100 counties and 12 habitats.

Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
12

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
12
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 12

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

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Floodplain and bottomland forests

fallen (uprooted) tree
WinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Floodplain SystemsNamed 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.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
WinterOpen Water (Fresh); Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural LakeshoreRegional / 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
WinterCultivated CroplandLyell 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.

Swamps

View, Dismal Swamp, North Carolina
WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

Winter

Depression ponds and limesinks

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland; Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore

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

Freshwater tidal marshes

Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Mountain bogs and fens

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

Winter

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh

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.

WinterBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (27)

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 (18)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter.
  • Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Winter.
  • Mississippi River Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Red River Large Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Land cover and other classes (7)
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 20 of 100 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in 97 of 100 counties.

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 307

Plant genera in its diet records (42)
  • Ambrosia 2 diet records. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Digitaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Euphorbia 2 diet records. 15 native plants in North Carolina
  • Panicum 2 diet records. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Triticum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Urochloa 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Acalypha 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Amaranthus 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Athysanus 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Avena 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Brassica 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Calandrinia 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Carex 1 diet record. 148 native plants in North Carolina
  • Centaurea 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Chenopodium 1 diet record. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Croton 1 diet record. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Dactyloctenium 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Deinandra 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Diodella 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Empetrum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Erodium 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Helianthus 1 diet record. 16 native plants in North Carolina
  • Hordeum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Liquidambar 1 diet record. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Madia 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Paspalum 1 diet record. 11 native plants in North Carolina
  • Persicaria 1 diet record. 13 native plants in North Carolina
  • Pinus 1 diet record. 8 native plants in North Carolina
  • Polygonum 1 diet record. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Ranunculus 1 diet record. 13 native plants in North Carolina
  • Rumex 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Sambucus 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 10 native plants in North Carolina
  • Scleranthus 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Stellaria 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Trifolium 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Verbena 1 diet record. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Viola 1 diet record. 24 native plants in North Carolina
  • Zanthoxylum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Zea 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 112

Plants 132

All of coastal dunes and beaches in North Carolina

Depression ponds and limesinks

Birds 71

Plants 123

All of depression ponds and limesinks in North Carolina

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 120

Plants 23

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources