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Lapland Longspur

Calcarius lapponicus

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

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

At a glance

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

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Virginia 5

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 5

Coastal dunes and beaches

Core Banks dunes, June 2013
WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy BeachDune 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.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Yellow butterwort beside a moss-hung coastal pond
WinterAtlantic 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.

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.

WinterAtlantic 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.

Winter

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (34)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Winter.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

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

Also found in this habitat

Plants 71

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 244

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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