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Black Skimmer

Rynchops niger

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in 20 of 100 counties, across 5 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
20 of 100 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
20 of 100 counties
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 5

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

1 of 5

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
SummerWinterOpen 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland

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.

SummerWinter

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerWinterAtlantic 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.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (19)

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 (16)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Summer and winter.
  • Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer and winter.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer and winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer and winter.
Northeast (1)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (2)
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Year-round: nests here, in 4 of 100 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 17 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 112

Plants 132

All of coastal dunes and beaches in North Carolina

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 90

Plants 211

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in North Carolina

Salt and brackish marshes

Birds 92

Plants 52

All of salt and brackish marshes in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources