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Ring-necked Pheasant

Phasianus colchicus

Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in 2 of 64 parishes, across 6 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
2 of 64 parishes
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
2 of 64 parishes
Habitats
6
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 6

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

1 of 6

Prairies and grasslands

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

Year-roundWest Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie; Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Atlantic 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.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.

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.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration
Other habitats in its models (30)

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

In Louisiana 1

  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
Elsewhere in the South (12)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
Northeast (1)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (4)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (12)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Year-round: nests 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 15

Plant genera in its diet records (9)
  • Zea Seeds. 13 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Avena 12 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Triticum 11 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Hordeum 7 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Eriogonum 3 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Arundinaria 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Glycine Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Secale 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Persicaria 1 diet record. 10 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

Prairies and grasslands

Birds 69

Plants 160

All of prairies and grasslands in Louisiana

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 179

Plants 20

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources