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Greater Roadrunner

Geococcyx californianus

Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in 25 of 64 parishes, across 1 habitat.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
25 of 64 parishes
Habitats
1

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
25 of 64 parishes
Habitats
1
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 1

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

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundCultivated Cropland
Other habitats in its models (8)

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

Elsewhere in the South (3)
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
Northeast (3)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Year-round.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Year-round.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (2)
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Year-round: nests here, in 25 of 64 parishes.

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

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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