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Long-billed Curlew

Numenius americanus

A winter visitor to North Carolina, found in 18 of 100 counties and 7 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
18 of 100 counties
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
18 of 100 counties
Habitats
7
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 7

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

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 (13)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
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 (4)
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 18 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

Depression ponds and limesinks

Birds 71

Plants 123

All of depression ponds and limesinks in North Carolina

Freshwater tidal marshes

Birds 81

Plants 30

All of freshwater tidal marshes in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources