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House Finch

Carpodacus mexicanus

Lives in Mississippi all year and nests here. Found in all 82 counties, across 5 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Year-round

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

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Forests and woodlands

Forest or woodland where the source does not say how moist or dry.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier

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 (15)

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

Elsewhere in the South (4)
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
Midwest (1)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (10)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 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 189

Plant genera in its diet records (26)
  • Brassica Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Amaranthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ambrosia Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Amsinckia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Anthemis Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Calandrinia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Carex Seeds. 1 diet record. 131 native plants in Mississippi
  • Centaurea Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Claytonia Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Croton Seeds. 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Mississippi
  • Deinandra Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Erodium Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Geranium Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Helianthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 18 native plants in Mississippi
  • Madia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Oxalis Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Polygonum Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Raphanus Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rumex Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Senecio Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Silene Seeds. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Silybum Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Solanum Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Spergula Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Stellaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Toxicodendron Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 119

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 66

Plants 172

All of forest edges and thickets in Mississippi

Forests and woodlands

Birds 25

Plants 605

All of forests and woodlands in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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