Bird
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.

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
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.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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.
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
- DovekieAlle alle
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoa
- Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus
- Wilson's PloverCharadrius wilsonia
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Purple SandpiperCalidris maritima
- Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus caudacutus
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Seaside SparrowAmmodramus maritimus
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
Plants 132
- Maritime ThoroughwortEupatorium maritimum
- Beach Morning-gloryIpomoea imperati
- Railroad VineIpomoea brasiliensis
- Seabeach KnotweedPolygonum glaucum
- Northern BayberryMorella pensylvanica
- Seabeach AmaranthAmaranthus pumilus
- Northern Seaside SpurgeEuphorbia polygonifolia
- Southern Seaside SpurgeEuphorbia bombensis
- Mound-lily YuccaYucca gloriosa
- Northern Seabeach OrachAtriplex mucronata
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Dune BluecurlsTrichostema nesophilum
Depression ponds and limesinks
Birds 71
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- BrantBranta bernicla
- Nelson's Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus nelsoni
- Yellow RailCoturnicops noveboracensis
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
- American WigeonAnas americana
Plants 123
- Bay BonesetEupatorium paludicola
- False FennelEupatorium leptophyllum
- Hairy SmartweedPersicaria hirsuta
- Shrubby SeedboxLudwigia suffruticosa
- Hirst's WitchgrassDichanthelium hirstii
- Coastal BeaksedgeRhynchospora pleiantha
- Grooved BeaksedgeRhynchospora sulcata
- Harper's BeaksedgeRhynchospora harperi
- Narrow-fruit Horned BeaksedgeRhynchospora inundata
- Tracy's BeaksedgeRhynchospora tracyi
- Slender Water-milfoilMyriophyllum tenellum
- Tall Pinebarren MilkwortSenega cymosa
Freshwater tidal marshes
Birds 81
- Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus caudacutus
- Seaside SparrowAmmodramus maritimus
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- BrantBranta bernicla
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Nelson's Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus nelsoni
- Yellow RailCoturnicops noveboracensis
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
Plants 30
- Saltmarsh Water-hempAmaranthus cannabinus
- Seashore MallowKosteletzkya pentacarpos
- Carolina BishopweedPtilimnium ahlesii
- Riverbank Evening-primroseOenothera riparia
- Long's BittercressCardamine longii
- Coastal Water-hyssopBacopa monnieri
- Beaked SpikerushEleocharis rostellata
- American ReedPhragmites americanus
- Godfrey's SandwortSabulina paludicola
- Eastern GrasswortLilaeopsis chinensis
- Hairypod CowpeaVigna luteola
- Bushy SeedboxLudwigia alternifolia
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Long-billed Curlew
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)











































