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Cackling Goose

Branta hutchinsii

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 23 of 64 parishes and 4 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
23 of 64 parishes
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
23 of 64 parishes
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Winter

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.

Winter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

WinterOnly within 500 m of water.West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterOnly within 500 m of water.Developed, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (23)

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

Elsewhere in the South (1)
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 500 m of water.
Midwest (7)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Winter, only within 500 m of water.
West (6)
  • California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Winter, only within 500 m of water.
Land cover and other classes (9)
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Eelgrass Bed Winter.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • North Pacific Maritime Eelgrass Bed Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter, only within 500 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 23 of 64 parishes.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 114

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 263

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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