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American Pipit

Anthus rubescens

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in all 82 counties and 11 habitats.

Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
11

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
11
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 11

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

1 of 11

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
WinterMississippi River Bottomland DepressionJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874), a neighboring state.The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

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

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

WinterMississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest; Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterCultivated Cropland

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

WinterBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Fresh)

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.

WinterBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (31)

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

Elsewhere in the South (19)
  • 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 Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Red River Large Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
Northeast (3)
  • 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.
Land cover and other classes (9)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 29 of 82 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in 64 of 82 counties.

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 294

Plant genera in its diet records (42)
  • Ambrosia 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Digitaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Euphorbia 2 diet records. 14 native plants in Mississippi
  • Panicum 2 diet records. 14 native plants in Mississippi
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Triticum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Urochloa 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Acalypha 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Amaranthus 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Athysanus 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Avena 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Brassica 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Calandrinia 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Carex 1 diet record. 131 native plants in Mississippi
  • Centaurea 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Chenopodium 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Croton 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Mississippi
  • Dactyloctenium 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Deinandra 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Diodella 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Empetrum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Erodium 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Helianthus 1 diet record. 18 native plants in Mississippi
  • Hordeum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Liquidambar 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Madia 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Paspalum 1 diet record. 16 native plants in Mississippi
  • Persicaria 1 diet record. 10 native plants in Mississippi
  • Pinus 1 diet record. 8 native plants in Mississippi
  • Polygonum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Ranunculus 1 diet record. 13 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rumex 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sambucus 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Scleranthus 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Stellaria 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Trifolium 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Verbena 1 diet record. 8 native plants in Mississippi
  • Viola 1 diet record. 16 native plants in Mississippi
  • Zanthoxylum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Zea 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 98

Plants 346

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Mississippi

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 127

Plants 118

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Mississippi

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 158

Plants 26

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources