Bird

Willet

Tringa semipalmata

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in 10 of 100 counties, across 5 habitats.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 10 of 100 counties
Habitats: 5

Male Willet, whole bird — **Male**. (c) datadan, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 104554099. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 10 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

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach; 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

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.

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 (63)

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 (19)

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.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
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 Winter.
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter.
Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter.
Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer and winter.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer and winter.

Northeast (2)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.

Midwest (5)

Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer.
Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer.

West (31)

Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Columbia Plateau Low Sagebrush Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Columbia Plateau Scabland Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Winter.
North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter.
North Pacific Bog and Fen Winter.
North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Winter.
North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Winter.
Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Winter, only within 60 m of water.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Winter.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Winter.
Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Winter.
Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Winter.
Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer.
Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer.

Land cover and other classes (6)

Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
Mediterranean California Eelgrass Bed Winter.
South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

Year-round: nests here, in 10 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.