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Bell's Vireo

Vireo bellii

A summer resident that nests in Louisiana. Found in 8 of 64 parishes, across 4 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
8 of 64 parishes
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
8 of 64 parishes
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 4

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

1 of 4

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.

Summer

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerRed River Large Floodplain Forest

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerPasture/Hay
Other habitats in its models (19)

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

Elsewhere in the South (6)
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Midwest (2)
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
Land cover and other classes (11)
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Summer: nests here, in 8 of 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 11

Plant genera in its diet records (5)
  • Amaranthus 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Digitaria 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Fallopia 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sambucus 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Toxicodendron 1 diet record. 3 native plants 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.

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 80

Plants 131

All of forest edges and thickets in Louisiana

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 169

Plants 20

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Louisiana

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 139

Plants 958

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources