Bird
Least Flycatcher
Empidonax minimus
A summer resident that nests in Virginia. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 15 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 15
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 15
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 15
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
1 of 15
Streams, rivers and their banks
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.
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.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (41)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
- South Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Winter.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Seasons in Virginia
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 94 of 133 counties and cities.
- Summer: nests here, in 56 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 849
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Summer SedgeCarex aestivalis
- Red HickoryCarya ovalis
- Fraser's SedgeCymophyllus fraserianus
- Intermediate Wood-fernDryopteris intermedia
- Black HuckleberryGaylussacia baccata
- GoldensealHydrastis canadensis
- Blue Ridge St. John's-wortHypericum mitchellianum
- Spotted JewelweedImpatiens capensis
- Fraser MagnoliaMagnolia fraseri
- False Solomon's-sealMaianthemum racemosum
- BlackgumNyssa sylvatica
- Greater Purple Fringed OrchidPlatanthera grandiflora
- Lesser Purple Fringed OrchidPlatanthera psycodes
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Sun-facing ConeflowerRudbeckia heliopsidis
- Bluntlobe GrapefernSceptridium oneidense
- Rock SkullcapScutellaria saxatilis
- StarflowerTrientalis borealis
- Mapleleaf ViburnumViburnum acerifolium
- Fraser FirAbies fraseri
- Florida MapleAcer floridanum
- Southern Blue MonkshoodAconitum uncinatum
- New York FernAmauropelta noveboracensis
- Walking FernAsplenium rhizophyllum
Wildlife 248
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
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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 Least Flycatcher
- 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)