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Common Nighthawk

Chordeiles minor

A summer resident that nests in Mississippi. Found in all 82 counties, across 25 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
25

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
25
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 25

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

1 of 25

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff

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.

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

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 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.

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

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp; Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome; Mississippi River Bottomland DepressionJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874), a neighboring state.The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. Public domain. Source record.

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

SummerBeside its main habitat.

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

SummerBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

SummerBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Mississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest; Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Forests and woodlands

Forest or woodland where the source does not say how moist or dry.

SummerBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier

Freshwater marshes

Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

SummerBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

SummerBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest

Pine flatwoods

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

SummerBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

SummerBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

SummerBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Fresh)

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

Seeps and springs

Places where groundwater keeps the soil or rock wet, such as seepage slopes and spring runs.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Brackish/Salt)

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.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Deciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (211)

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

Elsewhere in the South (114)
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Louisiana Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
  • Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
  • Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Granitic Dome Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Rocky Summit Summer.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Interior Acid Cliff Summer.
  • Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff Summer.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Cliff Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Granite Flatrock Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northeast (13)
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer.
  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (12)
  • Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer.
  • Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Summer.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (72)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Barren Land Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Developed, High Intensity Summer.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Summer: nests 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.

Common Nighthawk uses many habitats in Mississippi; these are its 3 most characteristic.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 120

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 124

Plants 118

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Mississippi

Prairies and grasslands

Birds 45

Plants 240

All of prairies and grasslands in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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