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.
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Cabbage PalmettoSabal palmetto
- Acroporium smalliiAcroporium smallii
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Gumbo LimboBursera simaruba
- SeagrapeCoccoloba uvifera
- Spanish StopperEugenia foetida
- InkwoodExothea paniculata
- Strangler FigFicus aurea
- JoewoodJacquinia keyensis
- False MasticSideroxylon foetidissimum
- Tough BumeliaSideroxylon tenax
- False SisalAgave decipiens
- MarlberryArdisia escallonioides
- Arnoglossum diversifoliumArnoglossum diversifolium
- ButtonwoodConocarpus erectus
- Dalbergia ecastaphyllumDalbergia ecastaphyllum
- Beach CreeperErnodea littoralis
- White StopperEugenia axillaris
- Coastal Mock VervainGlandularia maritima
- BeeftreeGuapira discolor
- Mangrove SpiderlilyHymenocallis latifolia
- Black IronwoodKrugiodendron ferreum
- Lythrum curtissiiLythrum curtissii
Wildlife 244
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Spot-breasted OrioleIcterus pectoralis
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
- Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalis
- Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglecta
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- White-tailed KiteElanus leucurus
- Whooping CraneGrus americana
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
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)

























