Bird
Cerulean Warbler
Dendroica cerulea
A summer resident that nests in Mississippi. Found in all 82 counties, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 82 counties
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests 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.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
Tree plantations and managed pine
Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.
Other habitats in its models (41)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
- South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Mississippi
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 50 of 82 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 45 of 82 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 100
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- TuliptreeLiriodendron tulipifera
- American Hop-hornbeamOstrya virginiana
- SourwoodOxydendrum arboreum
- White OakQuercus alba
- Cherrybark OakQuercus pagoda
- Florida MapleAcer floridanum
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Red BuckeyeAesculus pavia
- American HornbeamCarpinus caroliniana
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- Mockernut HickoryCarya tomentosa
- Flowering DogwoodCornus florida
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- American BeechFagus grandifolia
- White AshFraxinus americana
- Little Brown JugHexastylis arifolia
- American HollyIlex opaca
- Netted Chain-fernLorinseria areolata
- Cucumber MagnoliaMagnolia acuminata
- Southern MagnoliaMagnolia grandiflora
- Bigleaf MagnoliaMagnolia macrophylla
- Partridge-berryMitchella repens
- Red MulberryMorus rubra
Wildlife 118
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
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 Cerulean Warbler
- 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)















































