Bird

Blue-winged Warbler

Vermivora pinus

A summer resident that nests in North Carolina. Found in all 100 counties, across 11 habitats.

Here: Summer and on migration
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 100 counties
Habitats: 11

Male Blue-winged Warbler, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Owen Strickland, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 470102397. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Summer and on migration
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 100 counties
Habitats: 11
Habitat models: Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in North Carolina 11

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 11

SummerSouth-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and RiparianNamed place / source context. Shown: Congaree Swamp National Monument floodplain forest, South Carolina; representative illustration, no exact viewpoint, a neighboring state.fallen (uprooted) tree, John Dawson, by1988. Public domain. Source record.

SummerPasture/HayLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr)*Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"*, Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

SummerSouth-Central Interior Small Stream and RiparianFrederic Edwin Church, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina (1865-70): a boulder-strewn mountain river under autumn-coloured ridges. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. North Carolina mountains (Frederic Edwin Church, oil sketch 1865-70; Cooper Hewitt)*Drawing, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina, 1865–70*, Frederic Edwin Church, 1865-1870. Public domain. Source record.

SummerSouthern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression SwampNamed place / source context. Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, as titled by Museum of Fine Arts Boston; nineteenth-century artistic interpretationView, Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, Regis Francois Gignoux, 1850. Public domain. Source record.

Dry forests and woodlands

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

SummerSouthern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric; Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

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

Moderately dry forests

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

SummerSouthern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest

Moist forests

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

SummerSouthern Piedmont Mesic Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest

Mountain bogs and fens

Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.

Summer

Northern hardwood forests

High mountain forests of beech, yellow birch and sugar maple, including boulderfield forests.

Summer

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.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation

Other habitats in its models (28)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in North Carolina. Those recorded in North Carolina first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (4)

Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer.
Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.

Northeast (3)

Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer.

Midwest (6)

North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.

Land cover and other classes (15)

Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
Recently Burned Summer.
Recently Burned Forest Summer.
Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
Recently Logged Areas Summer.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

Migratory: does not nest here, in 97 of 100 counties.
Summer: nests here, in 20 of 100 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, 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.