Habitat in Mississippi
Salt and brackish marshes
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides. Schafale
- Plants
- 50
- Birds
- 118
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Mississippi. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 50
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Carolina Bristle-mallowModiola caroliniana
- SaltcedarTamarix ramosissima
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
Most characteristic birds of this habitat 94
Ranked by how much of their habitat model this habitat is.
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- SoraPorzana carolina
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- American CootFulica americana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
Widespread birds also seen here (24)
Found in many habitats here, so not listed above.
- American Crow
- Bald Eagle
- Belted Kingfisher
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Chimney Swift
- Common Grackle
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Yellowthroat
- Cooper's Hawk
- European Starling
- Fish Crow
- Great Horned Owl
- Hooded Merganser
- Northern Cardinal
- Osprey
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Turkey Vulture
- White-throated Sparrow
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-crowned Night-heron
Sources
- Schafale, Guide to the Natural Communities of North Carolina, Fourth Approximation (NC Natural Heritage Program, 2012) habitat description
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat text phone app
- NC Parks species accounts
- USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (reviewed notes)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001)
- NatureServe Explorer ecological systems (CC BY 4.0)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.