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Dovekie

Alle alle

A winter visitor to Virginia, found in 5 of 133 counties and cities and 3 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
5 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
5 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Winter

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

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach

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.

Winter

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (2)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia. Those recorded in Virginia first, the rest by region.

Land cover and other classes (2)
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 5 of 133 counties and cities.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Virginia, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 108

Plants 109

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Virginia

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 130

Plants 24

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Virginia

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Birds 81

Plants 9

All of sounds, bays and tidal flats in Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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