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American Avocet

Recurvirostra americana

Passes through Mississippi on migration. Found in 5 of 82 counties, across 7 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
5 of 82 counties
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
5 of 82 counties
Habitats
7
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 7

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

1 of 7

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

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.

Winter

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)

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

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)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterOnly within 120 m of water.Developed, Open Space; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Disturbed, Non-specific
Other habitats in its models (77)

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

Elsewhere in the South (25)
  • 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.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Louisiana Beach Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Winter.
Northeast (4)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Winter.
Midwest (2)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
West (36)
  • California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • California Northern Coastal Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Chihuahuan Mixed Salt Desert Scrub Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Winter.
  • Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Greasewood Flat Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Mat Saltbush Shrubland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Barrens Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Winter.
  • Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Winter.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Winter.
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Active and Stabilized Dune Winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Badland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • North American Warm Desert Pavement Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • North American Warm Desert Playa Winter.
  • North Pacific Bog and Fen Winter.
  • North Pacific Montane Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Sonora-Mojave Mixed Salt Desert Scrub Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
Land cover and other classes (10)
  • Barren Land Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 5 of 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 129

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 158

Plants 26

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Mississippi

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 127

Plants 118

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources