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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.

1 of 9

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

Summer

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.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

SummerOpen Water (Fresh)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Disturbed, Non-specific

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.

SummerOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (23)

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

Elsewhere in the South (18)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Summer.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Summer.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Summer.
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Summer.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
Land cover and other classes (5)
  • Barren Land Summer.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Summer: nests here, in 2 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 127

Plants 118

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Mississippi

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 129

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 158

Plants 26

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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