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European Starling

Sturnus vulgaris

Lives in Mississippi all year and nests here. Found in all 82 counties, across 21 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
21

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
21
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 21

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

1 of 21

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.

Year-round

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

Year-roundSuccessional Shrub/Scrub (Other)

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

The Land of Evangeline
Year-roundBeside 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; Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems; 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 dunes and beaches

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

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.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-roundBeside 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.

Year-roundBeside 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.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.

Dry forests and woodlands

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

Year-roundBeside 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.

Year-roundBeside 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

Freshwater marshes

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

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

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

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

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.East 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.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.East 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-roundBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest

Moderately dry forests

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

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest

Moist forests

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

Year-roundBeside 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.

Year-roundBeside 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.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.East 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-roundBeside its main habitat.East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

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-roundBeside its main habitat.Deciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (201)

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

Elsewhere in the South (104)
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Year-round.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Red River Large Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Cypress Dome Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Granitic Dome Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Rocky Summit Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Interior Acid Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Granite Flatrock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Northeast (14)
  • Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Acadian-Appalachian Montane Spruce-Fir Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (10)
  • Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (73)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Curl-leaf Mountain Mahogany Woodland and Shrubland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Recently Burned Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Recently Burned Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Recently Logged Areas Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 82 counties. Introduced.

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 147

Plant genera in its diet records (31)
  • Triticum 6 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Zea 6 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Prunus 4 diet records. 7 native plants in Mississippi
  • Celtis 3 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Galactia 3 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ilex 3 diet records. 14 native plants in Mississippi
  • Nyssa 3 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rubus 3 diet records. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Triadica 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Vaccinium 3 diet records. 9 native plants in Mississippi
  • Polygonum 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Vitis 2 diet records. 10 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ambrosia 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Avena 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Bromus 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Croton 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Mississippi
  • Digitaria 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Hedeoma 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Hordeum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Juniperus 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Lycopus 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ostrya 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Phytolacca 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Quercus 1 diet record. 38 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rhus 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Secale 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Setaria 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Viburnum 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Mississippi
  • Xanthium 1 diet record. 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.

European Starling uses many habitats in Mississippi; these are its 3 most characteristic.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 130

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 159

Plants 26

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Mississippi

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 76

Plants 172

All of forest edges and thickets in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources