Bird

White-winged Dove

Zenaida asiatica

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in 9 of 82 counties and 10 habitats.

Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 9 of 82 counties
Habitats: 10

Male White-winged Dove, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Bob Miller, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 667338795. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 9 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.

1 of 10

WinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerWinterMississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest; Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerWinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Swamps

Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

SummerWinterDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation

Other habitats in its models (58)

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

Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
Developed, Medium Intensity Summer and winter.
Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
South Florida Hardwood Hammock Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter.
South Florida Pine Rockland Summer.
Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Winter.
Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer and winter.
Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Winter.
Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Winter.
Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Winter.
Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer.
South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Red River Large Floodplain Forest Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Winter.
South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.
Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Winter.