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.
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Royal TernThalasseus maximus
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- WilletTringa semipalmata
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
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)




















