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Smith's Longspur

Calcarius pictus

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 28 of 64 parishes and 1 habitat.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
28 of 64 parishes
Habitats
1

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
28 of 64 parishes
Habitats
1
Habitat models
Winter

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.

WinterCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (16)

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

Elsewhere in the South (2)
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
Midwest (3)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
Land cover and other classes (11)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 28 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 147

Plant genera in its diet records (14)
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Ambrosia 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Carex 1 diet record. 84 native plants in Louisiana
  • Digitaria 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Echinochloa 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Euphorbia 1 diet record. 17 native plants in Louisiana
  • Hordeum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Panicum 1 diet record. 12 native plants in Louisiana
  • Phleum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sporobolus 1 diet record. 12 native plants in Louisiana
  • Trifolium 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Triticum 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 153

Plants 958

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources