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Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow

Ammodramus nelsoni

A winter visitor to Virginia, found in 25 of 133 counties and cities and 4 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
25 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
25 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Virginia 4

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

1 of 4

Coastal dunes and beaches

Core Banks dunes, June 2013
WinterAtlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal WetlandDune 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.

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

Winter

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

Freshwater tidal marshes

Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh
Other habitats in its models (13)

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

  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 25 of 133 counties and cities.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 56

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 211

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