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Orchard Oriole

Icterus spurius

A summer resident that nests in Mississippi. Found in all 82 counties, across 9 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
9

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
9
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 9

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

1 of 9

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress DomeJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874), a neighboring state.The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. Public domain. Source record.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Summer

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Mississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

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.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier

Prairies and grasslands

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

SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; 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.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (79)

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

Elsewhere in the South (36)
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Summer.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • South Florida Cypress Dome Summer.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Northeast (2)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
Midwest (7)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
Land cover and other classes (34)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Summer: nests here, in all 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 119

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 87

Plants 346

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Mississippi

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 66

Plants 172

All of forest edges and thickets in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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