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Long-billed Dowitcher

Limnodromus scolopaceus

Passes through Virginia on migration. Found in 127 of 133 counties and cities, across 5 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
127 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
127 of 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
WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)Dune 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
WinterOpen Water (Fresh)Regional / 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.

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)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterOnly within 120 m of water.Cultivated Cropland
Other habitats in its models (47)

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

  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
  • Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Winter.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Winter.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Winter, only within 120 m of water.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 127 of 133 counties and cities.

Also found in this habitat

Wildlife 247

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.

Sources