Bird
Black-whiskered Vireo
Vireo altiloquus
A summer resident that nests in Florida. Found in 23 of 67 counties, across 4 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 23 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 23 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 4
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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.
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.
Tidal forests and thickets of red, black and white mangrove along sheltered tropical and subtropical shores.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Other habitats in its models (2)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer, beside its main habitat.
Seasons in Florida
- Summer: nests here, in 23 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 168
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Baptisia megacarpaBaptisia megacarpa
- ScareweedBaptisia simplicifolia
- Batis maritimaBatis maritima
- Tree Seaside OxeyeBorrichia arborescens
- Sea OxeyeBorrichia frutescens
- Rough StrongbarkBourreria radula
- Bahama StrongbarkBourreria succulenta
- Long Key LocustberryByrsonima lucida
- Trumpet-creeperCampsis radicans
- Pepper CinnamonCanella winterana
- Wild OliveCartrema americanum
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- Sevenyear AppleCasasia clusiifolia
- SugarberryCeltis laevigata
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Atlantic White CedarChamaecyparis thyoides
- Shiny SpikegrassChasmanthium nitidum
- Small-leaf MilkberryChiococca parvifolia
- Coco PlumChrysobalanus icaco
- Yucatan FlymallowCienfuegosia yucatanensis
- PitchappleClusia rosea
- TietongueCoccoloba diversifolia
- GreenheartColubrina arborescens
- SoldierwoodColubrina elliptica
Wildlife 244
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
- Mangrove CuckooCoccyzus minor
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Black-whiskered Vireo
- 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)































