Bird
Hooded Warbler
Wilsonia citrina
A summer resident that nests in Mississippi. Found in 79 of 82 counties, across 8 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 79 of 82 counties
- Habitats
- 8

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 79 of 82 counties
- Habitats
- 8
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Mississippi 8
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
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.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Other habitats in its models (58)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Maritime Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
- Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
- South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Mississippi
- Summer: nests here, in 79 of 82 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 490
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- Cherrybark OakQuercus pagoda
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Southern MagnoliaMagnolia grandiflora
- Water OakQuercus nigra
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- American BeechFagus grandifolia
- TuliptreeLiriodendron tulipifera
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- Virginia SweetspireItea virginica
- Sweetbay MagnoliaMagnolia virginiana
- White OakQuercus alba
- Dwarf PalmettoSabal minor
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Poison-ivyToxicodendron radicans
- Ravine SedgeCarex impressinervia
- SugarberryCeltis laevigata
- Longleaf SpikegrassChasmanthium sessiliflorum
- Flowering DogwoodCornus florida
- White AshFraxinus americana
- Possumhaw HollyIlex decidua
- Partridge-berryMitchella repens
- Swamp TupeloNyssa biflora
- BlackgumNyssa sylvatica
Wildlife 193
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
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 Hooded Warbler Elevation up to 1,200 m
- 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)














































