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Bobolink

Dolichonyx oryzivorus

Passes through North Carolina on migration. Found in all 100 counties, across 3 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 3

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

1 of 3

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
SummerCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb RegenerationLyell 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.

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.

Summer

Mountain balds

Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.

Summer
Other habitats in its models (6)

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 (1)
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
Midwest (1)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
Land cover and other classes (4)
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in all 100 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 30

Plant genera in its diet records (8)
  • Ambrosia 2 diet records. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Echinochloa 2 diet records. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Oryza 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Panicum 2 diet records. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Paspalum 2 diet records. 11 native plants in North Carolina
  • Polygonum 2 diet records. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Urochloa 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 89

Plants 1314

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in North Carolina

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 120

Plants 23

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in North Carolina

Mountain balds

Birds 23

Plants 76

All of mountain balds in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources