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Common Ground-dove

Columbina passerina

Lives in Mississippi all year and nests here. Found in 26 of 82 counties, across 9 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
26 of 82 counties
Habitats
9

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
26 of 82 counties
Habitats
9
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 9

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

1 of 9

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

Year-roundUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

Year-roundSouthern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

Year-roundMississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods

Prairies and grasslands

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

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Fresh)
Other habitats in its models (51)

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

Elsewhere in the South (24)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Year-round.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Year-round.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Year-round.
  • Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Year-round.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Year-round.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Year-round.
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Year-round.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (27)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Barren Land Year-round.
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Forest Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Recently Logged Areas Year-round.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Year-round: nests here, in 26 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 244

Plant genera in its diet records (48)
  • Croton 36 diet records. 7 native plants in Mississippi
  • Panicum 18 diet records. 14 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sida 16 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Euphorbia 12 diet records. 14 native plants in Mississippi
  • Oxalis 12 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Paspalum 10 diet records. 16 native plants in Mississippi
  • Acalypha 8 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Amaranthus 8 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ambrosia 8 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Argemone 8 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Commelina 8 diet records. 5 native plants in Mississippi
  • Galium 8 diet records. 11 native plants in Mississippi
  • Lepidium 8 diet records. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rapistrum 8 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Setaria 8 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Thamnosma 8 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Urochloa 8 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Malva 6 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Polygonum 6 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Rumex 6 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Scutellaria 6 diet records. 14 native plants in Mississippi
  • Tradescantia 6 diet records. 8 native plants in Mississippi
  • Triticum 6 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Vicia 6 diet records. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Berchemia 4 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Clinopodium 4 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Crotalaria 4 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Cyperus 4 diet records. 35 native plants in Mississippi
  • Hemizonia 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Iva 4 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Meximalva 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Mollugo 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rhynchosia 4 diet records. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Tragia 4 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Verbena 4 diet records. 8 native plants in Mississippi
  • Chloris 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Cirsium 2 diet records. 7 native plants in Mississippi
  • Cuscuta 2 diet records. 9 native plants in Mississippi
  • Geranium 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Helianthus 2 diet records. 18 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ipomoea 2 diet records. 7 native plants in Mississippi
  • Lithospermum 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Madia 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Malvastrum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Oenothera 2 diet records. 11 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sorghum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sphaeralcea 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Zanthoxylum 2 diet records. 1 native plant 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

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 127

Plants 118

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Mississippi

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 75

Plants 172

All of forest edges and thickets in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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