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Rock Pigeon

Columba livia

Lives in Mississippi all year and nests here. Found in all 82 counties, across 2 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 2

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

1 of 2

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)
Other habitats in its models (14)

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

Elsewhere in the South (4)
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Interior Acid Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Northeast (2)
  • North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (2)
  • Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (6)
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Year-round: nests 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 67

Plant genera in its diet records (15)
  • Avena 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Hordeum 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Prunus 2 diet records. 7 native plants in Mississippi
  • Triticum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Zea 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Amaranthus 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Digitaria 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Phytolacca 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Polygonum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Quercus 1 diet record. 38 native plants in Mississippi
  • Robinia 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sorghum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Toxicodendron 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ulmus 1 diet record. 5 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 129

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 127

Plants 118

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources