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 82
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.
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Purple SandpiperCalidris maritima
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellata
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Royal TernThalasseus maximus
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
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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)