Pied-billed Grebe in Virginia

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Virginia 8

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

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SummerWinterAtlantic 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.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Fresh); Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural LakeshoreRegional / 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.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt MarshBrackish marsh at a woodland edge. Shown: Fort Fisher, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Fort Fisher brackish marsh and woodland edge, ncwetlands.org, undated. CC0 1.0. 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.

SummerWinter

Depression ponds and limesinks

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore

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.

SummerWinter

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

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.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Other habitats in its models (36)

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

Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter.
Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer and winter.
Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer and winter.
North Pacific Maritime Eelgrass Bed Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Mediterranean California Eelgrass Bed Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer and winter.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer and winter.
North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer and winter.
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer and winter.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer and winter.
Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer and winter.
Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer and winter.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.