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Red Crossbill

Loxia curvirostra

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in 55 of 82 counties and 3 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
55 of 82 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
55 of 82 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

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

Forests and woodlands

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

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

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterDeveloped, Open Space

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.

WinterEvergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (12)

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

Elsewhere in the South (3)
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer and winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Summer and winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer and winter.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (7)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 55 of 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 18

Plant genera in its diet records (6)
  • Pinus 6 diet records. 8 native plants in Mississippi
  • Picea 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ambrosia 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Larix 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Tsuga 1 diet record. 0 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.

Tree plantations and managed pine

Birds 56

Plants 1

All of tree plantations and managed pine in Mississippi

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 119

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Forests and woodlands

Birds 25

Plants 605

All of forests and woodlands in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources