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Redhead

Aythya americana

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in all 82 counties and 7 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
7
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 7

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

1 of 7

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and BaygallJoseph 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

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.

Winter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterMississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh

Seeps and springs

Places where groundwater keeps the soil or rock wet, such as seepage slopes and spring runs.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall

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.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (18)

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

Elsewhere in the South (12)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Land cover and other classes (4)
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 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 38

Plant genera in its diet records (15)
  • Scirpus Seeds. 4 diet records. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Chara Leaves. 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Leersia Seeds. 3 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Polygonum Seeds. 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Potamogeton Flowers and leaves. 3 diet records. 9 native plants in Mississippi
  • Stuckenia Seeds and leaves. 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Glyceria Seeds. 2 diet records. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Halodule Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Ruppia Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Zannichellia Leaves. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Alisma Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Beckmannia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Hordeum Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Lemna Leaves. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rhizoclonium 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 123

Plants 118

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Mississippi

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Birds 88

Plants 30

All of coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated) in Mississippi

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Birds 81

Plants 11

All of sounds, bays and tidal flats in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources