Bird
Eurasian Wigeon
Anas penelope
A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 2 of 64 parishes and 4 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 2 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 2 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.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Other habitats in its models (23)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Winter: does not nest here, in 2 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 58
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Water TupeloNyssa aquatica
- Swamp TupeloNyssa biflora
- Panicum tenerumPanicum tenerum
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
- Seashore CrowngrassPaspalum vaginatum
- Pinus elliottii var. elliottiiPinus elliottii var. elliottii
- Swamp CottonwoodPopulus heterophylla
- Laurel OakQuercus laurifolia
- Starrush Whitetop SedgeRhynchospora colorata
- Spreading BeaksedgeRhynchospora divergens
- Small's BeaksedgeRhynchospora globularis var. pinetorum
- Southern BeaksedgeRhynchospora microcarpa
- Shortbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora nitens
- Dwarf PalmettoSabal minor
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Slender Sea-purslaneSesuvium maritimum
- Giant BristlegrassSetaria magna
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Swamp RedbayTamala palustris
- Pond CypressTaxodium ascendens
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Southern CattailTypha domingensis
- MuscadineVitis rotundifolia
Wildlife 225
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Eurasian Wigeon Elevation 0 to 1,200 m
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)








































