Bird
Manx Shearwater
Puffinus puffinus
A winter visitor to Virginia, found in 5 of 133 counties and cities and 1 habitat.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 5 of 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 1

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 5 of 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 1
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 1
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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.
Seasons in Virginia
- Winter: does not nest here, in 5 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 92
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common MerganserMergus merganser
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- DovekieAlle alle
- Eastern Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
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 Manx Shearwater Marine water only
- 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)

























