Bird

Common Nighthawk

Chordeiles minor

A summer resident that nests in North Carolina. Found in all 100 counties, across 35 habitats.

Here: Summer and on migration
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 100 counties
Habitats: 35

Female Common Nighthawk, whole bird — **Female**. no rights reserved. CC0. iNaturalist photo 140534662. Source-provided large resize; no crop or image edits.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Summer and on migration
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 100 counties
Habitats: 35
Habitat models: Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 35

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

1 of 35

SummerSouthern Piedmont Cliff; Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff; Southern Appalachian Rocky SummitWilliam Frerichs, North Carolina Mountain Landscape: rocky bluffs and ledges above a river in the Carolina mountains. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. North Carolina mountains (William C. A. Frerichs)*North Carolina Mountain Landscape*, William Charles Anthony Frerichs, c. 1855-1870. Public domain. Source record.

SummerSouthern Appalachian Granitic DomeBald Face above Lake Fairfield, Sapphire, North Carolina: a bare granite dome rising above forest and a still lake (photochrom print, about 1902). Bald Face (Big Bald Face) above Lake Fairfield, Sapphire, Jackson County, North CarolinaBald Face from Lake Fairfield, Sapphire, N.C., Detroit Publishing Co. (photochrom print), c. 1902. Public domain. Source record.

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old FieldLyell 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.

SummerSouthern Interior Calcareous Cliff

Mountain balds

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

SummerSouthern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier; Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier

Sandhills

Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire.

SummerAtlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier; Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier

SummerBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; South-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; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain 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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine ModifierNamed place / source context. Shown: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Georgia, a neighboring state.Trail on Little Kennesaw Mountain., Unidentified in HFC record, undated. Public domain. Source record.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Central 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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and FlatwoodsGeorge Inness, Georgia Pines (1890): tall, straight pines over an open, grassy floor in a south Georgia pine woods. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Georgia pine woods (George Inness, 1890; site not named), a neighboring state.Georgia Pines, George Inness (1825-1894), 1890. Public domain. Source record.

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Regional / representative. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee; representative habitat composite, not a documented exact viewpointSpruce-fir forest, Hynes, Robert 'Bob', by 2012. Public domain. Source record.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Central 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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall; Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp; Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier; Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland; 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.

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Atlantic 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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric; Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier; Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest; Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland; Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

SummerBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

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

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest

Moderately dry forests

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

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest

Moist forests

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

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest; Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest

Mountain bogs and fens

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

SummerBeside its main habitat.

Northern hardwood forests

High mountain forests of beech, yellow birch and sugar maple, including boulderfield forests.

SummerBeside its main habitat.

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods

Pocosins and bay forests

Dense evergreen shrub wetlands and bay forests on wet, acid peat of the Coastal Plain.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin; Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh

Seeps and springs

Places where groundwater keeps the soil or rock wet, such as seepage slopes and spring runs.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Brackish/Salt)

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Deciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation

Wet meadows

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

SummerBeside its main habitat.Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems

Other habitats in its models (192)

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

In North Carolina 2

Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.

Elsewhere in the South (102)

Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer.
Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer.
Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer.
Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Cumberland Riverscour Summer, beside its main habitat.
Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer, beside its main habitat.
East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Summer.
Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Louisiana Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
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, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Interior Acid Cliff Summer.
Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southwest Florida Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer.
Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.

Northeast (13)

Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer.
North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Summer.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer.
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 (12)

Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer.
Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Summer.
Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer, beside its main habitat.

Land cover and other classes (63)

Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer, beside its main habitat.
Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
Barren Land Summer.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Developed, High Intensity Summer.
Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer, beside its main habitat.
Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer, beside its main habitat.
Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer.
Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
Recently Burned Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer, beside its main habitat.
Unconsolidated Shore Summer, beside its main habitat.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

Migratory: does not nest here, in 24 of 100 counties.
Summer: nests here, in 99 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.

Common Nighthawk uses many habitats in North Carolina; these are its 3 most characteristic.