Bird

Eurasian Collared-dove

Streptopelia decaocto

Lives in Mississippi all year and nests here. Found in all 82 counties, across 15 habitats.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 82 counties
Habitats: 15

Male Eurasian Collared-dove, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Dr. Nasser Halaweh, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 210376521. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 82 counties
Habitats: 15
Habitat models: Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 15

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

1 of 15

Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk BluffStanding water on a limestone glade. Shown: Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens State Natural Area, Rutherford County, Tennessee, a neighboring state.Standing water, Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens SNA, Rutherford County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

Year-roundEast 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

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

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

Year-roundSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

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 Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest

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

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest

Moist forests

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

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest

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 - 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.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

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

Swamps

Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

Year-roundSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome; Mississippi River Bottomland Depression

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.

Year-roundDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation

Other habitats in its models (144)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi.

Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Year-round.
Barren Land Year-round.
South Florida Shell Hash Beach Year-round.
Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round.
North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Year-round.
North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round.
Southern Piedmont Cliff Year-round.
Southern Interior Acid Cliff Year-round.
Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff Year-round.
Southern Appalachian Rocky Summit Year-round.
Southern Appalachian Granitic Dome Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Year-round.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Year-round.
Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Year-round.
South Florida Hardwood Hammock Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round.
Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round.
East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Year-round.
South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round.
Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Year-round.
Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
Appalachian Shale Barrens Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Year-round.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Year-round.
South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier 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.
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.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Year-round.
Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Year-round.
East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Year-round.
Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Year-round.
Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Year-round.
Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Year-round.
North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Year-round.
North-Central Oak Barrens Year-round.
Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Year-round.
Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Year-round.
Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Year-round.
Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Year-round.
Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Year-round.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Year-round.
Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Year-round.
Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
Central Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round.
Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round.
Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
Recently Logged Areas Year-round.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
Recently Burned Year-round.
Recently Burned Forest Year-round.
Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round.
Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Year-round.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Year-round.
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Year-round.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Year-round.
South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round.
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Year-round.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round.
South Florida Cypress Dome Year-round.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round.
Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Year-round.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Year-round.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Year-round.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.
Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Year-round.
Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round.
Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Year-round.
South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Year-round.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Year-round.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
South Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Year-round.
Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.