Bird
Interior Least Tern
Sternula antillarum athalassos
A summer resident that nests in Mississippi. Found in 16 of 82 counties, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 16 of 82 counties
- Habitats
- 3
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At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 16 of 82 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Mississippi 3
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (13)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Barren Land Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
Seasons in Mississippi
- Summer: nests here, in 16 of 82 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 221
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
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 Interior Least Tern Slow streams only
- 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)