Bird
Gray Kingbird
Tyrannus dominicensis
A summer resident that nests in Mississippi. Found in 2 of 82 counties, across 9 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 2 of 82 counties
- Habitats
- 9

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 2 of 82 counties
- Habitats
- 9
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Mississippi 9
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
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.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
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.
Other habitats in its models (23)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
- Barren Land Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
- Southeast Florida Beach Summer.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer.
- Southwest Florida Beach Summer.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Summer.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Mississippi
- Summer: nests here, in 2 of 82 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 149
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarum var. amarulum
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Ceratiola ericoidesCeratiola ericoides
- Woody GoldenrodChrysoma pauciflosculosa
- False RosemaryConradina canescens
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Sweetbay MagnoliaMagnolia virginiana
- Swamp TupeloNyssa biflora
- Panicum tenerumPanicum tenerum
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
- Longleaf PinePinus palustris
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- Tall JointweedPolygonella gracilis
- Sand Live OakQuercus geminata
- Quercus myrtifoliaQuercus myrtifolia
- Water OakQuercus nigra
Wildlife 262
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Gray Kingbird Brackish or salt water only
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)









































