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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. Those recorded in Mississippi first, the rest by region.

Land cover and other classes (3)
  • 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 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.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 158

Plants 26

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Mississippi

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 129

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground 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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