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Painted Bunting

Passerina ciris

A summer resident that nests in Mississippi. Found in 47 of 82 counties, across 13 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
47 of 82 counties
Habitats
13

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
47 of 82 counties
Habitats
13
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 13

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

1 of 13

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
SummerWinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); 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.

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Standing water, Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens SNA, Rutherford County
WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk BluffStanding water on a limestone glade. Shown: Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens State Natural Area, Rutherford County, Tennessee, a neighboring state.Standing water, Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens SNA, Rutherford County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

SummerWinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

Summer

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.

Winter

Freshwater marshes

Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.

SummerSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier

Pine flatwoods

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

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

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Prairies and grasslands

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

SummerWinterEast 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.

SummerWinterPasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Swamps

Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome
Other habitats in its models (59)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Summer: nests here, in 47 of 82 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 227

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 263

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