Bird
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.
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
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.
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.
- Fraser FirAbies fraseri
- Appalachian SnakerootAgeratina roanensis
- Upland BentgrassAgrostis perennans
- Allegheny OnionAllium allegheniense
- Filmy AngelicaAngelica triquinata
- Black ChokeberryAronia melanocarpa
- Wavy HairgrassAvenella flexuosa
- Narrow Triangle MoonwortBotrychium angustisegmentum
- Fringed BromeBromus ciliatus
- Appalachian SedgeCarex appalachica
- Brownish SedgeCarex brunnescens
- Crested SedgeCarex cristatella
- Flexuous White-edge SedgeCarex flexuosa
- Greater Straw SedgeCarex normalis
- Pale SedgeCarex pallescens
- Pennsylvania SedgeCarex pensylvanica
- Variable SedgeCarex polymorpha
- Scarlet Indian-paintbrushCastilleja coccinea
- Hoary FrostweedCrocanthemum bicknellii
- Low FrostweedCrocanthemum propinquum
- Beaked DodderCuscuta rostrata
- Flattened OatgrassDanthonia compressa
- Poverty OatgrassDanthonia spicata
- Tall LarkspurDelphinium exaltatum
Wildlife 229
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Olive-sided FlycatcherContopus cooperi
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
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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 summer habitat model for Bobolink Elevation 18 to 2,500 m. Avoids forest interior
- 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)