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Red-winged Blackbird

Agelaius phoeniceus

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in all 100 counties, across 28 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
28

At a glance

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Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
28
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 28

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

1 of 28

Floodplain and bottomland forests

fallen (uprooted) tree
SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; South-Central Interior Large FloodplainNamed 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.

Freshwater marshes

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
SummerWinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland SystemsRegional / 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.

Pine flatwoods

Georgia Pines
SummerWinterCentral Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and FlatwoodsGeorge Inness, Georgia Pines (1890): tall, straight pines over an open, grassy floor in a south Georgia pine woods. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Georgia pine woods (George Inness, 1890; site not named), a neighboring state.Georgia Pines, George Inness (1825-1894), 1890. Public domain. Source record.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
SummerWinterAtlantic 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"
SummerWinterCultivated 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.

Streams, rivers and their banks

Drawing, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina, 1865–70
SummerWinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; South-Central Interior Small Stream and RiparianFrederic 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
SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall; Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems; Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier; Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland; Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression SwampNamed 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

SummerWinter

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.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland; Atlantic 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.

SummerWinter

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerWinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration

Freshwater tidal marshes

Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Mountain bogs and fens

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

SummerWinter

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

SummerWinterCentral Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods

Pocosins and bay forests

Dense evergreen shrub wetlands and bay forests on wet, acid peat of the Coastal Plain.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin; Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh

Seeps and springs

Places where groundwater keeps the soil or rock wet, such as seepage slopes and spring runs.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall

Wet meadows

Open, wet, grassy or sedgy ground that is not a bog.

SummerWinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems

Forests and woodlands

Trail on Little Kennesaw Mountain.
WinterBeside its main habitat.Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine ModifierNamed place / source context. Shown: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Georgia, a neighboring state.Trail on Little Kennesaw Mountain., Unidentified in HFC record, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Rich cove forests

Cove hardwood forest
WinterBeside its main habitat.Southern 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.

Dry forests and woodlands

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

WinterBeside its main habitat.Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric; Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier; Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest; Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland; Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

WinterBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

WinterBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest

Moderately dry forests

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

WinterBeside its main habitat.Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest

Moist forests

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

WinterBeside its main habitat.Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest; Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest

Sandhills

Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire.

WinterBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier; Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier

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.

WinterBeside its main habitat.Deciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine
Other habitats in its models (178)

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

In North Carolina 2

  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Winter, beside its main habitat.
Elsewhere in the South (100)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer and winter.
  • Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi River Riparian Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Red River Large Floodplain Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Cypress Dome Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer and winter.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Summer and winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer and winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
  • Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Northeast (10)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (8)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (58)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Developed, High Intensity Summer and winter.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Year-round: nests 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 392

Plant genera in its diet records (45)
  • Zea Seeds. 13 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Sorghum 12 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Panicum Seeds. 10 diet records. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Amaranthus 6 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Triticum Seeds. 6 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Polygonum Seeds. 5 diet records. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Ambrosia 4 diet records. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Chenopodium 4 diet records. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Helianthus 4 diet records. 16 native plants in North Carolina
  • Hydrocotyle Seeds. 4 diet records. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Persicaria Seeds. 4 diet records. 13 native plants in North Carolina
  • Cyperus Seeds. 3 diet records. 35 native plants in North Carolina
  • Murdannia 3 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Alopecurus 2 diet records. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Avena Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Brasenia Seeds. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Ceratophyllum 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Decodon Seeds. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Digitaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Paspalum 2 diet records. 11 native plants in North Carolina
  • Quercus Seeds. 2 diet records. 31 native plants in North Carolina
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Sporobolus 2 diet records. 8 native plants in North Carolina
  • Acalypha 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Andropogon 1 diet record. 11 native plants in North Carolina
  • Barbarea 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Bouteloua 1 diet record. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Carex 1 diet record. 148 native plants in North Carolina
  • Croton 1 diet record. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Datura 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Echinochloa 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Eleocharis 1 diet record. 28 native plants in North Carolina
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Hedeoma 1 diet record. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Lathyrus 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Lespedeza 1 diet record. 9 native plants in North Carolina
  • Oryza 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Phytolacca 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Rhus 1 diet record. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 10 native plants in North Carolina
  • Scleria 1 diet record. 11 native plants in North Carolina
  • Secale 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Solanum 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Vitis 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Xanthium 1 diet record. 1 native plant 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.

Red-winged Blackbird uses many habitats in North Carolina; these are its 3 most characteristic.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 90

Plants 1314

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in North Carolina

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 71

Plants 367

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in North Carolina

Swamps

Birds 70

Plants 329

All of swamps in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources