Bird

Alder Flycatcher

Empidonax alnorum

Passes through Mississippi on migration. Found in all 82 counties, across 4 habitats.

Here: On migration
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: All 82 counties
Habitats: 4

Male Alder Flycatcher, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Kalvin Chan, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 394200859. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: On migration
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: All 82 counties
Habitats: 4
Habitat models: Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 4

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

1 of 4

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.

Summer

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerUtility Swath - Herbaceous

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation

Other habitats in its models (44)

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

Elsewhere in the South (13)

Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer.
South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.

Northeast (7)

Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.

Midwest (3)

Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.

Land cover and other classes (21)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
Recently Burned Summer.
Recently Burned Forest Summer.
Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
Recently Logged Areas Summer.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

Migratory: does not nest here, in all 82 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Mississippi, 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.