Long-billed Dowitcher in North Carolina

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.

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WinterOpen Water (Fresh)Regional / 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.

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

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

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.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

WinterOnly within 120 m of water.Cultivated 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.

Other habitats in its models (47)

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 (35)

Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Florida Dry Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter.
Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter, only within 120 m of water.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter, only within 120 m of water.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.

Land cover and other classes (12)

East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
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 73 of 100 counties.
Winter: does not nest here, in 27 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.