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Sooty Tern

Onychoprion fuscatus

A summer resident that nests in Mississippi. Found in 1 of 82 counties, across 2 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
1 of 82 counties
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
1 of 82 counties
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Summer

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

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

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.

SummerOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (4)

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

Elsewhere in the South (2)
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer.
Land cover and other classes (2)
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Summer: nests here, in 1 of 82 counties.

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 127

Plants 118

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Mississippi

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Birds 82

Plants 11

All of sounds, bays and tidal flats in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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