Ring-necked Pheasant in Louisiana

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.

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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.

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