Bird
Yellow-throated Warbler
Dendroica dominica
Lives in Mississippi all year and nests here. Found in all 82 counties, across 7 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 82 counties
- Habitats
- 7

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 82 counties
- Habitats
- 7
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Mississippi 7
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
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.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Other habitats in its models (50)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Winter.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Winter.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
- Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter.
- Recently Burned Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer and winter.
Seasons in Mississippi
- Year-round: nests here, in 5 of 82 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in all 82 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 395
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- Sweetbay MagnoliaMagnolia virginiana
- Swamp TupeloNyssa biflora
- Pinus elliottii var. elliottiiPinus elliottii var. elliottii
- Pond CypressTaxodium ascendens
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Virginia SweetspireItea virginica
- Shining FetterbushLyonia lucida
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Slash PinePinus elliottii
- Dwarf PalmettoSabal minor
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- SugarberryCeltis laevigata
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Atlantic White CedarChamaecyparis thyoides
- Coastal Sweet-pepperbushClethra alnifolia
- Cliftonia monophyllaCliftonia monophylla
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
- Possumhaw HollyIlex decidua
- InkberryIlex glabra
- Pieris phillyreifoliaPieris phillyreifolia
- Laurel OakQuercus laurifolia
Wildlife 227
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MerlinFalco columbarius
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 Yellow-throated Warbler Elevation up to 910 m
- 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)












































