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Magnolia Warbler

Dendroica magnolia

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

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

Floodplain and bottomland forests

fallen (uprooted) tree
SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian SystemsNamed 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.

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.

Streams, rivers and their banks

Drawing, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina, 1865–70
SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian SystemsFrederic 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.

Swamps

View, Dismal Swamp, North Carolina
SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Swamp SystemsNamed 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.

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

Dry forests and woodlands

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

SummerSouthern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

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

Moist forests

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

SummerSouthern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest

Mountain bogs and fens

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

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.

SummerEvergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (8)

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

Northeast (1)
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
Land cover and other classes (7)
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 92 of 100 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 27 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.

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 40

Plants 231

All of forest edges and thickets in North Carolina

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 70

Plants 367

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in North Carolina

Tree plantations and managed pine

Birds 31

Plants 2

All of tree plantations and managed pine in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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