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Red Crossbill

Loxia curvirostra

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in all 100 counties, across 4 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 4

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

1 of 4

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
WinterDeveloped, Open SpaceLyell 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.

Spruce-fir forests

Spruce-fir forest
SummerWinterRegional / 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.

SummerWinterSouthern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland; Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest

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.

WinterEvergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (10)

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

Northeast (2)
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer and winter.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (8)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Year-round: nests here, in 28 of 100 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in 82 of 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 25

Plant genera in its diet records (6)
  • Pinus 6 diet records. 8 native plants in North Carolina
  • Picea 2 diet records. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Ambrosia 1 diet record. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Larix 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 10 native plants in North Carolina
  • Tsuga 1 diet record. 2 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.

Dry forests and woodlands

Birds 53

Plants 217

All of dry forests and woodlands in North Carolina

Spruce-fir forests

Birds 16

Plants 23

All of spruce-fir 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.

Sources