Bird

Louisiana Waterthrush

Seiurus motacilla

A summer resident that nests in Virginia. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 9 habitats.

Here: Summer
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 133 counties and cities
Habitats: 9

Male Louisiana Waterthrush, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Matt Felperin, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 125620223. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Summer
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 133 counties and cities
Habitats: 9
Habitat models: Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Virginia 9

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

1 of 9

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; South-Central Interior Small Stream and RiparianFrederic Edwin Church, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina (1865-70): a boulder-strewn mountain river under autumn-coloured ridges. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: North Carolina mountains (Frederic Edwin Church, oil sketch 1865-70; Cooper Hewitt), a neighboring state.Drawing, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina, 1865–70, Frederic Edwin Church, 1865-1870. Public domain. Source record.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems; Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa ModifierWilliam McIlvaine, The Chickahominy Swamp (1862): wind-tossed swamp trees standing in dark water under a storm. Chickahominy Swamp, VirginiaThe Chickahominy Swamp LCCN2004661405, William McIlvaine (1813-1867), 1862. Public domain. Source record.

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

SummerAtlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain

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.

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

SummerOnly within 60 m of water.Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood ForestRegional / representative. Shown: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee; representative habitat composite, not a documented exact viewpoint, a neighboring state.Hemlock forest / rocky mountain stream, Hynes, Robert 'Bob', by 2012. Public domain. Source record.

SummerOnly within 60 m of water.Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest; Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest; South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed ForestHarvey Joiner, Woods Scene: tall beeches in a moist Kentucky woodland, light falling through a closed canopy onto a damp forest floor. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Kentucky beech woods (Harvey Joiner, Louisville painter of Kentucky beech forests; the painting does not name the site), a neighboring state.Woods Scene, Harvey Joiner, c. 1880-1920. Public domain. Source record.

SummerOnly within 60 m of water.Southern and Central Appalachian Cove ForestRegional / representative. Shown: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee; representative habitat composite, not a documented exact viewpoint, a neighboring state.Cove hardwood forest, Hynes, Robert 'Bob', by 2012. Public domain. Source record.

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

SummerOnly within 60 m of water.Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest

Northern hardwood forests

High mountain forests of beech, yellow birch and sugar maple, including boulderfield forests.

SummerOnly within 60 m of water.

Other habitats in its models (30)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia. Those recorded in Virginia first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (24)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer, only within 60 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 60 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer, only within 60 m of water.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Summer, only within 60 m of water.
East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer.
Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer.
Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 60 m of water.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer.
South Florida Cypress Dome Summer.
Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 60 m of water.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer.

Northeast (1)

North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.

Midwest (1)

North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, only within 60 m of water.

Land cover and other classes (4)

East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer.
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

Summer: nests here, in all 133 counties and cities.

County or city

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Virginia, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.