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Forster's Tern

Sterna forsteri

Lives in Mississippi all year and nests here. Found in all 82 counties, across 7 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
7
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 7

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

1 of 7

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland; Atlantic 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.

SummerWinter

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.

SummerWinter

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.

SummerWinterMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

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.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

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
Other habitats in its models (40)

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

  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
  • Barren Land Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Louisiana Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Year-round: nests here, in 3 of 82 counties.
  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 7 of 82 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 82 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 120

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 229

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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