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American Wigeon

Anas americana

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in all 64 parishes and 6 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
6
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 6

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

1 of 6

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.

Winter

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

Freshwater marshes

Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.

WinterTexas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

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)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

WinterOnly within 60 m of water.Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (27)

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

Elsewhere in the South (16)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
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 (9)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 64 parishes.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 227

Plant genera in its diet records (30)
  • Myriophyllum Seeds and leaves. 5 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Ranunculus Seeds and leaves. 4 diet records. 12 native plants in Louisiana
  • Stuckenia Seeds and leaves. 4 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Zostera Leaves and roots. 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Triticum Seeds. 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Chenopodium Seeds. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Eleocharis Seeds. 2 diet records. 35 native plants in Louisiana
  • Lachnanthes Seeds and roots. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Najas 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Ruppia 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Trifolium Leaves. 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Zea Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Callitriche Leaves. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Carex 1 diet record. 84 native plants in Louisiana
  • Chara 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Cladophora 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Cyperus Seeds. 1 diet record. 32 native plants in Louisiana
  • Echinochloa Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Hordeum Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Lemna Leaves. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Louisiana
  • Persicaria 1 diet record. 10 native plants in Louisiana
  • Polygonum Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Potamogeton 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sagittaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Louisiana
  • Salicornia Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Scirpus Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Typha 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Ulva 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Vallisneria Leaves. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Zannichellia Leaves. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 139

Plants 958

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Louisiana

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 169

Plants 20

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Louisiana

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Birds 91

Plants 25

All of coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated) in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources