Bird
Fox Sparrow
Passerella iliaca
A winter visitor to Virginia, found in all 133 counties and cities and 16 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 16
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 16
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 16
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
1 of 16
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.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.
High mountain forests of beech, yellow birch and sugar maple, including boulderfield forests.
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.
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.
Other habitats in its models (61)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia. Those recorded in Virginia first, the rest by region.
In Virginia 1
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
Elsewhere in the South (32)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Winter.
- Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
- South Texas Lomas Winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Winter.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
Northeast (2)
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Winter.
Midwest (3)
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
Land cover and other classes (23)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Seasons in Virginia
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 842
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Goat's-rueTephrosia virginiana
- Small-leaved Meadow-rueThalictrum macrostylum
- Atlantic Poison-oakToxicodendron pubescens
- Drooping TrilliumTrillium flexipes
- Barksdale TrilliumTrillium sulcatum
- American ElmUlmus americana
- Large-flowered BellwortUvularia grandiflora
- Elliott's BlueberryVaccinium elliottii
- WingstemVerbesina alternifolia
- Rusty BlackhawViburnum rufidulum
- Smooth Yellow VioletViola eriocarpa
- American Dog VioletViola labradorica
- Prostrate Blue VioletViola walteri
- Summer GrapeVitis aestivalis
- Northern Barren-strawberryWaldsteinia fragarioides
- Hercules-clubZanthoxylum clava-herculis
- Slender Threeseed MercuryAcalypha gracilens
- White BaneberryActaea pachypoda
- Mountain BugbaneActaea podocarpa
- Painted BuckeyeAesculus sylvatica
- Yellow Giant-hyssopAgastache nepetoides
- Lesser SnakerootAgeratina aromatica
- Woodland AgrimonyAgrimonia rostellata
Wildlife 238
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
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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 winter habitat model for Fox Sparrow
- 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)