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Lapland Longspur

Calcarius lapponicus

A winter visitor to North Carolina, found in all 100 counties and 5 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 5

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

1 of 5

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural LakeshoreRegional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
WinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old FieldLyell 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland

Depression ponds and limesinks

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore

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.

Winter
Other habitats in its models (33)

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

In North Carolina 1

  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Winter.
Elsewhere in the South (16)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
  • Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
Northeast (1)
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Winter.
Land cover and other classes (15)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Winter: 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 313

Plant genera in its diet records (39)
  • Setaria 3 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Amaranthus 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Digitaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Panicum 2 diet records. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Ambrosia 1 diet record. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Ammophila 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Avena 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Calamagrostis Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Carex 1 diet record. 148 native plants in North Carolina
  • Cerastium Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Chenopodium 1 diet record. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Cornus 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Echinochloa 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Empetrum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Eragrostis 1 diet record. 7 native plants in North Carolina
  • Fallopia 1 diet record. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Festuca 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Fragaria 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Gentiana 1 diet record. 9 native plants in North Carolina
  • Helianthus 1 diet record. 16 native plants in North Carolina
  • Honckenya 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Hordeum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Luzula Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Papaver 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Persicaria 1 diet record. 13 native plants in North Carolina
  • Phleum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Portulaca 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Potentilla 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Ranunculus 1 diet record. 13 native plants in North Carolina
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 10 native plants in North Carolina
  • Silene 1 diet record. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Symphoricarpos 1 diet record. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Triplasis 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Triticum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Vaccinium 1 diet record. 16 native plants in North Carolina
  • Verbena 1 diet record. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Viola 1 diet record. 24 native plants in North Carolina
  • Zea 1 diet record. 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

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 112

Plants 132

All of coastal dunes and beaches in North Carolina

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 120

Plants 23

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources