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Rock Pigeon

Columba livia

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
Year-round

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"
Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/HayLyell 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.

Cliffs, ledges and rocky summits

North Carolina Mountain Landscape
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Southern Piedmont Cliff; Southern Appalachian Montane CliffWilliam Frerichs, North Carolina Mountain Landscape: rocky bluffs and ledges above a river in the Carolina mountains. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. North Carolina mountains (William C. A. Frerichs)North Carolina Mountain Landscape, William Charles Anthony Frerichs, c. 1855-1870. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff
Other habitats in its models (11)

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

Elsewhere in the South (1)
  • Southern Interior Acid Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Northeast (2)
  • North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (2)
  • Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (6)
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round, beside its main habitat.

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 67

Plant genera in its diet records (15)
  • Avena 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Hordeum 2 diet records. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Prunus 2 diet records. 10 native plants in North Carolina
  • Triticum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Zea 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Amaranthus 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Digitaria 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Phytolacca 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Polygonum 1 diet record. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Quercus 1 diet record. 31 native plants in North Carolina
  • Robinia 1 diet record. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Sorghum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Toxicodendron 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Ulmus 1 diet record. 4 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

Cliffs, ledges and rocky summits

Birds 4

Plants 154

All of cliffs, ledges and rocky summits in North Carolina

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Birds 3

Plants 121

All of glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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