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Snow Goose

Chen caerulescens

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in all 82 counties and 6 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 82 counties
Habitats
6
Habitat models
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.

WinterAtlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

Winter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

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

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterMississippi 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.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (42)

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

Elsewhere in the South (6)
  • 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.
Northeast (2)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Midwest (6)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Winter.
West (14)
  • California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Winter.
  • California Northern Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Winter.
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
  • Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Winter.
Land cover and other classes (14)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore 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 - Perennial Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems 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 220

Plant genera in its diet records (24)
  • Eriophorum Leaves and roots. 5 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Oxytropis Leaves and roots. 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Triglochin Leaves and roots. 4 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Carex Leaves and roots. 3 diet records. 131 native plants in Mississippi
  • Eleocharis Leaves. 3 diet records. 42 native plants in Mississippi
  • Equisetum Leaves. 3 diet records. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Alopecurus Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Dupontia Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Plantago Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Salix Seeds and leaves. 2 diet records. 5 native plants in Mississippi
  • Schoenoplectus Roots. 2 diet records. 8 native plants in Mississippi
  • Spartina Roots. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Bistorta Roots. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Cerastium Leaves. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Glycine Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Musa 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Oryza Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Phleum Leaves. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Poa Leaves. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sagittaria Roots. 1 diet record. 11 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sorghum Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Trifolium Leaves. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Zea Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Zizania 1 diet record. 2 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

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 152

Plants 26

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Mississippi

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 123

Plants 118

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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