Bird
Black Tern
Chlidonias niger
Passes through Mississippi on migration. Found in all 82 counties, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 82 counties
- Habitats
- 2
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 82 counties
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Mississippi 2
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Other habitats in its models (1)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
Seasons in Mississippi
- Migratory: does not nest here, in all 82 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 206
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bell's VireoVireo bellii
- Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Black Tern Elevation up to 1,540 m
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)