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Bobolink

Dolichonyx oryzivorus

Passes through Mississippi on migration. Found in all 82 counties, across 3 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 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

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration
Other habitats in its models (6)

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

Elsewhere in the South (2)
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer.
Midwest (1)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
Land cover and other classes (3)
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in all 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 42

Plant genera in its diet records (8)
  • Ambrosia 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Echinochloa 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Oryza 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Panicum 2 diet records. 14 native plants in Mississippi
  • Paspalum 2 diet records. 16 native plants in Mississippi
  • Polygonum 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Urochloa 2 diet records. 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.

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

Prairies and grasslands

Birds 50

Plants 240

All of prairies and grasslands in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources