Bird
American Tree Sparrow
Spizella arborea
A winter visitor to Virginia, found in all 133 counties and cities and 10 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 10
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 10
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 10
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Streams, rivers and their banks
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.
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.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (30)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
- Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter.
- Recently Burned Winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
Seasons in Virginia
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 505
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Overcup OakQuercus lyrata
- Chestnut OakQuercus montana
- Shumard OakQuercus shumardii
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Black OakQuercus velutina
- Yellow Water-buttercupRanunculus flabellaris
- Mississippi ButtercupRanunculus laxicaulis
- Smooth SumacRhus glabra
- Threadleaf ArrowheadSagittaria filiformis
- Coastal Plain WillowSalix caroliniana
- Hyssop SkullcapScutellaria integrifolia
- Cat GreenbrierSmilax glauca
- Sweet GoldenrodSolidago odora
- Virginia SpiraeaSpiraea virginiana
- Greater DuckweedSpirodela polyrrhiza
- Rough DropseedSporobolus clandestinus
- Common SweetleafSymplocos tinctoria
- Spiked Hoary-peaTephrosia spicata
- Goat's-rueTephrosia virginiana
- Pineland SquareheadTetragonotheca helianthoides
- Atlantic Poison-oakToxicodendron pubescens
- Carolina HemlockTsuga caroliniana
- American ElmUlmus americana
- Eastern TurkeybeardXerophyllum asphodeloides
Wildlife 256
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
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NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for American Tree Sparrow
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)