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Canada Warbler

Wilsonia canadensis

A summer resident that nests in North Carolina. Found in all 100 counties, across 8 habitats.

Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
8

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
8
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 8

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

1 of 8

Rich cove forests

Cove hardwood forest
SummerSouthern and Central Appalachian Cove ForestRegional / representative. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee; representative habitat composite, not a documented exact viewpointCove hardwood forest, Hynes, Robert 'Bob', by 2012. Public domain. Source record.

Spruce-fir forests

Spruce-fir forest
SummerRegional / representative. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee; representative habitat composite, not a documented exact viewpointSpruce-fir forest, Hynes, Robert 'Bob', by 2012. 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; Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland

Moderately dry forests

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

SummerSouthern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest

Moist forests

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

SummerSouthern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest

Mountain balds

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

SummerSouthern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier

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
Other habitats in its models (4)

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

Northeast (2)
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
Land cover and other classes (2)
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 83 of 100 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 28 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.

Dry forests and woodlands

Birds 53

Plants 217

All of dry forests and woodlands in North Carolina

Rich cove forests

Birds 38

Plants 85

All of rich cove forests in North Carolina

Moderately dry forests

Birds 38

Plants 19

All of moderately dry forests in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources