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Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Pheucticus ludovicianus

Passes through Mississippi on migration. Found in all 82 counties, across 4 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 4

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

1 of 4

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
SummerGulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp SystemsJoseph 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.

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.

Summer

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

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.

SummerDeciduous Plantation
Other habitats in its models (52)

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

Elsewhere in the South (11)
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
Northeast (12)
  • Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Summer.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
  • Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
Midwest (6)
  • Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer.
  • Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
Land cover and other classes (23)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
  • Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Migratory: 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 213

Plant genera in its diet records (17)
  • Pisum 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Quercus Flowers and seeds. 3 diet records. 38 native plants in Mississippi
  • Acer Flowers. 1 diet record. 11 native plants in Mississippi
  • Amelanchier Fruit. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Avena Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Carex Seeds. 1 diet record. 131 native plants in Mississippi
  • Carya 1 diet record. 12 native plants in Mississippi
  • Cenchrus Fruit. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Mississippi
  • Fagus Flowers. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Impatiens Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Populus Flowers. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rubus Fruit. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sambucus Flowers. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Sanguinaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Solanum Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Triticum Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Zea 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.

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 75

Plants 172

All of forest edges and thickets in Mississippi

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 158

Plants 26

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Mississippi

Swamps

Birds 109

Plants 291

All of swamps in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources