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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.

1 of 4

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded SwampJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874)The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterAtlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

Winter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)
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 (16)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Land cover and other classes (5)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 2 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 (8)
  • Bolboschoenus 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Chara 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Najas 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Potamogeton 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Louisiana
  • Ruppia 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Stuckenia 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Ulva 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Zostera 1 diet record. 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 128

Plants 84

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Louisiana

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Birds 91

Plants 25

All of coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated) in Louisiana

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 85

Plants 162

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources