Bird

Fish Crow

Corvus ossifragus

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Year-round in Virginia, breeding, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 19 habitats found here.

Seasons here: Year-round
Breeding: Breeding
Range: 115 of 133 counties
Habitats: 19

Adult Fish Crow, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) Bill Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 263161165. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Seasons in Virginia: Year-round
Breeding: Breeding
Counties in known range: 115 of 133
Habitat models: Year-round

Where it lives

Southeast habitat models (USGS, 2001 land cover). The bird is not in every place a habitat occurs. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models Year-round model

Habitats in Virginia 19

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. Shared habitat, not food.

1 of 19

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal WetlandDune grassland. Shown: Core Banks, Cape Lookout, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Core Banks dunes, June 2013, Jarek Tuszyński, June 2013. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source record.

Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundRidge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and WoodlandLimestone cedar glade. Shown: Pennyroyal Plain, Simpson County, Kentucky, a neighboring state.Cedar glade in the Pennyroyal Plain, Simpson County, Mason Brock (Masebrock), undated. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundSouthern Piedmont Mesic Forest; South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed ForestRegional / representative. Shown: Mountains of North and South Carolina; exact site not identified, a neighboring state.Shortia beneath rhododendrons in mountain woodland, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundCentral Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and FlatwoodsWet pine flatwoods with a shrub layer. Shown: Shaken Creek Preserve, Pender and Onslow Counties, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Wet Pine Flatwoods, Shaken Creek Preserve - typical shrub layer, Robert Thornhill, undated. CC BY 4.0. Source record.

Year-roundCentral Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and FlatwoodsSandy pine savanna. Shown: Shaken Creek Preserve, Pender and Onslow Counties, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Sandy Pine Savanna, Rush Featherling subtype, Robert Thornhill, undated. CC BY 4.0. Source record.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin; Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and BaygallDense low pocosin. Shown: Shaken Creek Preserve, Pender and Onslow Counties, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Dense low pocosin, Robert Thornhill, undated. CC BY 4.0. Source record.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural LakeshoreRegional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal pond margins, Florida and Louisiana to North Carolina; state not identified, a neighboring state.Yellow butterwort beside a moss-hung coastal pond, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt MarshBrackish marsh at a woodland edge. Shown: Fort Fisher, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Fort Fisher brackish marsh and woodland edge, ncwetlands.org, undated. CC0 1.0. Source record.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp; Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier; Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression SwampNamed place / source context. Shown: Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, as titled by Museum of Fine Arts Boston; nineteenth-century artistic interpretation, a neighboring state.View, Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, Regis Francois Gignoux, 1850. Public domain. Source record.

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.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore

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.

Year-round

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest

Freshwater tidal marshes

Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

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.

Year-roundCumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

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.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier

Mountain bogs and fens

Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.

Year-round

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland

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.

Year-roundDeciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation

Other habitats in its models (92)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.

Developed, Low Intensity Year-round
Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Year-round
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round
Unconsolidated Shore Year-round
Louisiana Beach Year-round
Southeast Florida Beach Year-round
South Florida Shell Hash Beach Year-round
Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Year-round
Southwest Florida Beach Year-round
Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Year-round
Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Year-round
South Florida Hardwood Hammock Year-round
South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Year-round
Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round
Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Year-round
Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Year-round
Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Year-round
Florida Dry Prairie Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round
Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round
Recently Logged Areas Year-round
Recently Burned Year-round
Recently Burned Forest Year-round
Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Year-round
Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Year-round
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Year-round
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Year-round
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Year-round
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Year-round
South Florida Bayhead Swamp Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Year-round
South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round
Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Year-round
South Florida Cypress Dome Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Year-round
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round
Mississippi River Riparian Forest Year-round
Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round
Red River Large Floodplain Forest Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Year-round
Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round
South Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round
Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round