Bird

Eurasian Wigeon

Anas penelope

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in 13 of 82 counties and 5 habitats.

Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 13 of 82 counties
Habitats: 5

Male Eurasian Wigeon, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Marcel_Pepin, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 331584869. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 13 of 82 counties
Habitats: 5
Habitat models: Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 5

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

1 of 5

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterAtlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

Winter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

Swamps

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

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp

Other habitats in its models (22)

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

Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.