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Bobolink

Dolichonyx oryzivorus

Passes through Louisiana on migration. Found in all 64 parishes, across 2 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 2

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

1 of 2

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

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration
Other habitats in its models (7)

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

Elsewhere in the South (2)
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer.
Midwest (1)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
Land cover and other classes (4)
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Migratory: 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 37

Plant genera in its diet records (8)
  • Ambrosia 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Echinochloa 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Oryza 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Panicum 2 diet records. 12 native plants in Louisiana
  • Paspalum 2 diet records. 13 native plants in Louisiana
  • Polygonum 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Urochloa 2 diet records. 0 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.

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

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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