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Bachman's Sparrow

Aimophila aestivalis

Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in 8 of 133 counties and cities, across 4 habitats. It once lived in 105 more counties and cities.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
8 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
8 of 133 counties and cities
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 Virginia 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-roundDisturbed/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. Shown: Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr), a neighboring state.Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain", Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

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.

Year-round

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

Year-roundCentral Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods

Pine savannas

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

Year-roundCentral Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods
Other habitats in its models (31)

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

In Virginia 2

  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Year-round.
Elsewhere in the South (10)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (19)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Forest Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Logged Areas Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • The model links smaller forest patches to larger nearby open areas.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Year-round: nests here, in 8 of 133 counties and cities.

Possible or historical range

  • Historical: year-round, in 112 counties and cities.

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 19

Plant genera in its diet records (7)
  • Panicum Seeds. 3 diet records. 7 native plants in Virginia
  • Setaria Seeds. 3 diet records. 2 native plants in Virginia
  • Digitaria Seeds. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Virginia
  • Acalypha Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Virginia
  • Chloris Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Virginia
  • Galactia Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Virginia
  • Iva Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Virginia

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Virginia, 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 96

Plants 1283

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Virginia

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 130

Plants 24

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Virginia

Pine flatwoods

Birds 22

Plants 102

All of pine flatwoods in Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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