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Snow Goose

Chen caerulescens

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in all 64 parishes and 5 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 5

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

1 of 5

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterAtlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

Winter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

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

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (43)

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

Elsewhere in the South (7)
  • 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.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Midwest (6)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Winter.
West (14)
  • California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Winter.
  • California Northern Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Winter.
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
  • Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Winter.
Land cover and other classes (14)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore 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 - Perennial Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 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 160

Plant genera in its diet records (24)
  • Eriophorum Leaves and roots. 5 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Oxytropis Leaves and roots. 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Triglochin Leaves and roots. 4 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Carex Leaves and roots. 3 diet records. 84 native plants in Louisiana
  • Eleocharis Leaves. 3 diet records. 35 native plants in Louisiana
  • Equisetum Leaves. 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Alopecurus Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Dupontia Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Plantago Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Salix Seeds and leaves. 2 diet records. 6 native plants in Louisiana
  • Schoenoplectus Roots. 2 diet records. 6 native plants in Louisiana
  • Spartina Roots. 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Bistorta Roots. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Cerastium Leaves. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Glycine Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Musa 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Oryza Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Phleum Leaves. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Poa Leaves. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sagittaria Roots. 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sorghum Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Trifolium Leaves. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Zea Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Zizania 1 diet record. 2 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 139

Plants 958

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Louisiana

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 169

Plants 20

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Louisiana

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 128

Plants 84

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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