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House Finch

Carpodacus mexicanus

Lives in Mississippi all year and nests here. Found in all 82 counties, across 4 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Mississippi 4

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 4

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

Year-roundEvergreen Plantation or Managed Pine
Other habitats in its models (16)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi.

  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 82 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Wildlife 189

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources