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Smith's Longspur

Calcarius pictus

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in 39 of 82 counties and 1 habitat.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
39 of 82 counties
Habitats
1

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
39 of 82 counties
Habitats
1
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 1

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

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (16)

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

Elsewhere in the South (2)
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
Midwest (3)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
Land cover and other classes (11)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 39 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 191

Plant genera in its diet records (14)
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ambrosia 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Carex 1 diet record. 131 native plants in Mississippi
  • Digitaria 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Echinochloa 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Euphorbia 1 diet record. 14 native plants in Mississippi
  • Hordeum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Panicum 1 diet record. 14 native plants in Mississippi
  • Phleum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sporobolus 1 diet record. 9 native plants in Mississippi
  • Trifolium 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Triticum 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 119

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources