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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

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.

1 of 3

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

SummerOpen Water (Fresh)

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.

SummerOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerOnly within 1,000 m of water.Developed, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed, Non-specific
Other habitats in its models (13)

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

Elsewhere in the South (1)
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
Midwest (2)
  • Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
Land cover and other classes (10)
  • Barren Land Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Summer: nests here, in 16 of 82 counties.

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 129

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Birds 82

Plants 11

All of sounds, bays and tidal flats in Mississippi

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 82

Plants 200

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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