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Thayer's Gull

Larus thayeri

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in 3 of 82 counties and 4 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
3 of 82 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
3 of 82 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Winter

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

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.

WinterDeveloped, Open Space

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 (3)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi.

  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 3 of 82 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Wildlife 249

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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