Bird
Bufflehead
Bucephala albeola
A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in all 82 counties and 2 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 82 counties
- Habitats
- 2

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 82 counties
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Winter
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.
1 of 2
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
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.
Seasons in Mississippi
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 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.
Sounds, bays and tidal flats
Birds 82
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
- Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus
- Western Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus nivosus
- Interior Least TernSternula antillarum athalassos
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
Plants 11
- Shoal-grassHalodule wrightii
- Turtle GrassThalassia testudinum
- Heartleaf PlantainPlantago cordata
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Horned PondweedZannichellia palustris
- American WaterwortElatine americana
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Black MangroveAvicennia germinans
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Widgeon-grassRuppia maritima
- Carolina GrasswortLilaeopsis carolinensis
Ponds, lakes and their shores
Birds 82
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus
- Western Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus nivosus
- Cackling GooseBranta hutchinsii
- Interior Least TernSternula antillarum athalassos
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common LoonGavia immer
Plants 200
- Hypericum myrtifoliumHypericum myrtifolium
- Mudbank CrowngrassPaspalum dissectum
- West Indian BeakrushRhynchospora brachychaeta
- Eleocharis flavescens var. flavescensEleocharis flavescens var. flavescens
- Eleocharis minimaEleocharis minima
- Pale Spike RushEleocharis olivacea var. olivacea
- Swamp MilkwortSenega appendiculata
- Common BladderwortUtricularia macrorhiza
- Ceratopteris pteridoidesCeratopteris pteridoides
- Fuirena longaFuirena longa
- Water TupeloNyssa aquatica
- Hypericum brachyphyllumHypericum brachyphyllum
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Bufflehead Slow streams only
- 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)




















