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Reddish Egret

Egretta rufescens

Lives in Mississippi all year and nests here. Found in 7 of 82 counties, across 6 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
7 of 82 counties
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
7 of 82 counties
Habitats
6
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 6

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

1 of 6

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation

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.

SummerWinter

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.

SummerWinter

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerWinterMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

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.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Swamps

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

SummerWinterGulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems
Other habitats in its models (13)

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

  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
  • Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer and winter.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Year-round: nests here, in 1 of 82 counties.
  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 7 of 82 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 22

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

Wildlife 247

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