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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

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

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress DomeJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874), a neighboring state.The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. 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

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

WinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

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

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

Elsewhere in the South (33)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
  • Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Winter.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Winter.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
  • Red River Large Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Summer.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
Midwest (1)
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
Land cover and other classes (24)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer and winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 9 of 82 counties.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 116

Plant genera in its diet records (55)
  • Urochloa 90 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sorghum Seeds. 89 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Croton 80 diet records. 7 native plants in Mississippi
  • Helianthus Seeds. 69 diet records. 18 native plants in Mississippi
  • Zea Seeds. 52 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rivina 26 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Cucumis 18 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Carnegiea Flowers and seeds. 17 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Argemone 14 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Celtis 14 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Fouquieria 14 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Zanthoxylum 14 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Hordeum Seeds. 12 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Jatropha 10 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Nicotiana 10 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Quercus 10 diet records. 38 native plants in Mississippi
  • Lycium 8 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Condalia 7 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Malva 7 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Chilopsis 6 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Dodonaea 6 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rapistrum 6 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rhamnus 6 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Vitis 6 diet records. 10 native plants in Mississippi
  • Amyris 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Bursera 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Carthamus Seeds. 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Citrus 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Cnidoscolus 4 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Kallstroemia 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Larrea 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sebastiania 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Senegalia 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sideroxylon 4 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Triticum 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Vachellia 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Acmispon 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Agave 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Amaranthus 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Bignonia 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Capparis 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Cenchrus 2 diet records. 5 native plants in Mississippi
  • Commelina 2 diet records. 5 native plants in Mississippi
  • Mirabilis 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Morus 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Parkinsonia 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Populus 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Prosopis 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Rhynchosia 2 diet records. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sesbania 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Simmondsia 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Solanum 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Mississippi
  • Stenocereus 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Ziziphus 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Phalaris Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 129

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 98

Plants 346

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Mississippi

Moist forests

Birds 58

Plants 270

All of moist forests in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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