Habitat in Virginia
Sounds, bays and tidal flats
Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes. NatureServe
- Plants
- 9
- Birds
- 93
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Heartleaf PlantainPlantago cordata
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Widgeon-grassRuppia maritima
- Horned PondweedZannichellia palustris
- American WaterwortElatine americana
- Carolina GrasswortLilaeopsis carolinensis
- Small WaterwortElatine minima
- Welsh MudwortLimosella australis
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 93
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Long-tailed DuckClangula hyemalis
- Manx ShearwaterPuffinus puffinus
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Purple SandpiperCalidris maritima
- RazorbillAlca torda
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellata
- RedheadAythya americana
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Royal TernThalasseus maximus
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- WilletTringa semipalmata
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
Sources
- NatureServe, ecological systems of the United States habitat description
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat text phone app
- NC Parks species accounts
- USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (reviewed notes)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001)
- NatureServe Explorer ecological systems (CC BY 4.0)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.