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Bobolink

Dolichonyx oryzivorus

A summer resident that nests in Virginia. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 3 habitats.

Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 133 counties and cities
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 133 counties and cities
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Virginia 3

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 3

Mountain balds

Andrews Bald, Forney Ridge Trail, July 2020
SummerGrassy mountain bald with shrub islands. Shown: Andrews Bald, Forney Ridge Trail, Swain County, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Andrews Bald, Forney Ridge Trail, July 2020, Andrea Walton / Great Smoky Mountains National Park, July 2020. 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.

Summer

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration
Other habitats in its models (6)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.

  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 132 of 133 counties and cities.
  • Summer: nests here, in 5 of 133 counties and cities.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 81

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 229

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources