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Bell's Vireo

Vireo bellii

A summer resident that nests in Mississippi. Found in 1 of 82 counties, across 3 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
1 of 82 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
1 of 82 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 3

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

1 of 3

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.

SummerPasture/Hay
Other habitats in its models (20)

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

Elsewhere in the South (7)
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
  • Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Midwest (2)
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
Land cover and other classes (11)
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland 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.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Summer: nests here, in 1 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 11

Plant genera in its diet records (5)
  • Amaranthus 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Digitaria 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Fallopia 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sambucus 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Toxicodendron 1 diet record. 3 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.

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 66

Plants 172

All of forest edges and thickets in Mississippi

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 152

Plants 26

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Mississippi

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 119

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources