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Common Ground-dove

Columbina passerina

Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in all 64 parishes, across 9 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
9

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
9
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 9

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

1 of 9

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

Year-roundUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

Year-roundMississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

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

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods; Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

Year-roundMississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods

Prairies and grasslands

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

Year-roundTexas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Fresh)
Other habitats in its models (54)

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

Elsewhere in the South (24)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Year-round.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Year-round.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Year-round.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Year-round.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Year-round.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Year-round.
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Year-round.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Year-round.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (30)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Barren Land Year-round.
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Forest Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Recently Logged Areas Year-round.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Year-round: nests 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 225

Plant genera in its diet records (48)
  • Croton 36 diet records. 9 native plants in Louisiana
  • Panicum 18 diet records. 12 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sida 16 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Euphorbia 12 diet records. 17 native plants in Louisiana
  • Oxalis 12 diet records. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Paspalum 10 diet records. 13 native plants in Louisiana
  • Acalypha 8 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Amaranthus 8 diet records. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Ambrosia 8 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Argemone 8 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Commelina 8 diet records. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Galium 8 diet records. 12 native plants in Louisiana
  • Lepidium 8 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Rapistrum 8 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Setaria 8 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Thamnosma 8 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Urochloa 8 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Malva 6 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Polygonum 6 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Rumex 6 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Scutellaria 6 diet records. 12 native plants in Louisiana
  • Tradescantia 6 diet records. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Triticum 6 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Vicia 6 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Berchemia 4 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Clinopodium 4 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Crotalaria 4 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Cyperus 4 diet records. 32 native plants in Louisiana
  • Hemizonia 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Iva 4 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Meximalva 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Mollugo 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Rhynchosia 4 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Tragia 4 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Verbena 4 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Chloris 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Cirsium 2 diet records. 8 native plants in Louisiana
  • Cuscuta 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Geranium 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Helianthus 2 diet records. 16 native plants in Louisiana
  • Ipomoea 2 diet records. 6 native plants in Louisiana
  • Lithospermum 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Madia 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Malvastrum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Oenothera 2 diet records. 11 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sorghum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sphaeralcea 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Zanthoxylum 2 diet records. 2 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 153

Plants 958

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Louisiana

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 90

Plants 131

All of forest edges and thickets in Louisiana

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 124

Plants 267

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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