Bird
Dickcissel
Spiza americana
A summer resident that nests in Virginia. Found in 130 of 133 counties and cities, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 130 of 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 2
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 130 of 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 2
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 (24)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
- South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer.
Seasons in Virginia
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 18 of 133 counties and cities.
- Summer: nests here, in 122 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 225
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
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 Dickcissel
- 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)