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Greater Scaup

Aythya marila

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in 34 of 82 counties and 5 habitats.

Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
34 of 82 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
34 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 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

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.

Winter

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.

WinterMississippi 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.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (4)

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

Elsewhere in the South (3)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Northeast (1)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 24 of 82 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in 12 of 82 counties.

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 30

Plant genera in its diet records (10)
  • Potamogeton 4 diet records. 9 native plants in Mississippi
  • Chara 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Vallisneria 3 diet records. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Elodea 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Najas 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ulva 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Lemna 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ruppia Leaves. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Wolffia 1 diet record. 2 native plants 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.

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Birds 88

Plants 30

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

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 152

Plants 26

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Mississippi

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Birds 81

Plants 11

All of sounds, bays and tidal flats in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources