Habitat in Virginia
Forest edges and thickets
Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets. Schafale
- Plants
- 244
- Birds
- 99
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Japanese SpiraeaSpiraea japonica
- Multiflora RoseRosa multiflora
- Oriental BittersweetCelastrus orbiculatus
- Porcelain-berryAmpelopsis glandulosa
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 88
- House FinchCarpodacus mexicanus
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Olive-sided FlycatcherContopus cooperi
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Ring-necked PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
Near water in this habitat 11
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
Sources
- Schafale, Guide to the Natural Communities of North Carolina, Fourth Approximation (NC Natural Heritage Program, 2012) 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)
- Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.