Bird
White Ibis
Eudocimus albus
Lives in Mississippi all year and nests here. Found in 53 of 82 counties, across 10 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 53 of 82 counties
- Habitats
- 10

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 53 of 82 counties
- Habitats
- 10
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Mississippi 10
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)
Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
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.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Other habitats in its models (44)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi. Those recorded in Mississippi first, the rest by region.
Elsewhere in the South (27)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Summer and winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
Northeast (3)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (14)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
Seasons in Mississippi
- Year-round: nests here, in 53 of 82 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 337
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
- New York FernAmauropelta noveboracensis
- Narrowleaf BluestemAndropogon perangustatus
- American GroundnutApios americana
- Apteria aphyllaApteria aphylla
- Green DragonArisaema dracontium
- Aristida beyrichianaAristida beyrichiana
- Southern Three-awnAristida simpliciflora
- Switch CaneArundinaria tecta
- Red MilkweedAsclepias rubra
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Bearded BeggarticksBidens aristosa
- Small BeggarticksBidens discoidea
- Smallfruit BeggarticksBidens mitis
- Southern BluethreadBurmannia capitata
- American BeautyberryCallicarpa americana
- Bearded Grass-pinkCalopogon barbatus
- Many-flowered Grass-pinkCalopogon multiflorus
- Pale Grass-pinkCalopogon pallidus
- Prickly Bog SedgeCarex atlantica
- White-edge SedgeCarex debilis
- Coastal SedgeCarex exilis
- Blue Wood SedgeCarex flaccosperma
- Gray's SedgeCarex grayi
- Bristly-stalk SedgeCarex leptalea
Wildlife 235
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for White Ibis
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)









































