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Glaucous Gull

Larus hyperboreus

Not in its known range in Mississippi.

Here
Not in its known range
Range
3 of 82 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Not in its known range
Range
3 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.

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

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)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

WinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland

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.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (24)

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

Elsewhere in the South (8)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
Northeast (5)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
  • Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Winter.
Midwest (3)
  • Great Lakes Acidic Rocky Shore and Cliff Winter.
  • Great Lakes Dune Winter.
  • Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Winter.
Land cover and other classes (8)
  • Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Winter.
  • Developed, High Intensity Winter.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
  • Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Vagrant: does not nest here, in 3 of 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 129

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 127

Plants 118

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Mississippi

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Birds 89

Plants 30

All of coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated) in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources