Bird
Cooper's Hawk
Accipiter cooperii
Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 30 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 30

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 30
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 30
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone









Streams, rivers and their banks


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.
Granite and other acidic rock outcrops
Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.
Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.
Steep, sun-baked slopes of loose shale with sparse oaks and Virginia pine and their own endemic wildflowers. Linked only where the source names shale barrens; calcareous shale stays with the limestone glades.
Tree plantations and managed pine
Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.





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.
Depression ponds and limesinks
Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.
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.
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 (322)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Dune Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southwestern Great Plains Canyon Summer, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Summer.
- Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer.
- Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Mesic Canyon Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Aspen-Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna Summer.
- Central and Southern California Mixed Evergreen Woodland Summer.
- Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Western Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Subalpine Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Woodland and Parkland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Foothill Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Dry-Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Boreal Jack Pine-Black Spruce Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Barrens Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Laurentian Jack Pine-Red Pine Forest Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Poor-Site Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer and winter.
- East Cascades Oak-Ponderosa Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Acadian-Appalachian Montane Spruce-Fir Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Cascades Mesic Montane Mixed-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Northern California Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine Dwarf-Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine Tundra/Fell-field/Dwarf-shrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Acadian-Appalachian Alpine Tundra Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Avalanche Chute Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Sandhill Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Foothill Conifer Wooded Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Basin Semi-Desert Chaparral Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern and Central California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Laurentian Pine-Oak Barrens Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Savanna Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Great Lakes Alvar Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Wyoming Basins Dwarf Sagebrush Shrubland and Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Colorado Plateau Sand Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northwestern Great Plains Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Montane-Foothill Deciduous Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Deciduous Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine Fell-Field Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Upper Montane Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- South Texas Lomas Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Llano Uplift Acidic Forest, Woodland and Glade Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Chained Pinyon-Juniper Areas Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Summer.
- South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer and winter.
- Northern Pacific Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
- Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Lowland Summer.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Summer and winter.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
- Tamaulipan Floodplain Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Wash Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Edwards Plateau Riparian Summer.
- Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Woodland Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North American Warm Desert Riparian Mesquite Bosque Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
- Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Seasons in Virginia
- Year-round: nests here, in all 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 1287
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Mountain LaurelKalmia latifolia
- White OakQuercus alba
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- Flowering DogwoodBenthamidia florida
- American BeechFagus grandifolia
- TuliptreeLiriodendron tulipifera
- Virginia CreeperParthenocissus quinquefolia
- White AshFraxinus americana
- SourwoodOxydendrum arboreum
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- Christmas FernPolystichum acrostichoides
- Chestnut OakQuercus montana
- Mockernut HickoryCarya tomentosa
- Black HuckleberryGaylussacia baccata
- Northern SpicebushLindera benzoin
- BlackgumNyssa sylvatica
- Virginia PinePinus virginiana
- Southern Red OakQuercus falcata
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Rosebay RhododendronRhododendron maximum
- Sun-facing ConeflowerRudbeckia heliopsidis
- Eastern HemlockTsuga canadensis
Wildlife 262
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
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 Cooper's Hawk
- 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)

















































