Bird
Red Crossbill
Loxia curvirostra
Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 4 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Summer, 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.

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Tree plantations and managed pine
Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.
Other habitats in its models (8)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
Seasons in Virginia
- Year-round: nests here, in 34 of 133 counties and cities.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 117 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 238
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Mountain LaurelKalmia latifolia
- PiratebushBuckleya distichophylla
- American ChestnutCastanea dentata
- Appalachian Small Spreading PogoniaCleistesiopsis bifaria
- Sweet-fernComptonia peregrina
- Poverty OatgrassDanthonia spicata
- Trailing ArbutusEpigaea repens
- Eastern TeaberryGaultheria procumbens
- Black HuckleberryGaylussacia baccata
- Box HuckleberryGaylussacia brachycera
- BlackgumNyssa sylvatica
- SourwoodOxydendrum arboreum
- Shortleaf PinePinus echinata
- Pitch PinePinus rigida
- Eastern White PinePinus strobus
- Virginia PinePinus virginiana
- Pteridium aquilinumPteridium aquilinum
- Scarlet OakQuercus coccinea
- Chestnut OakQuercus montana
- Sun-facing ConeflowerRudbeckia heliopsidis
- SassafrasSassafras albidum
- Eastern HemlockTsuga canadensis
- Hillside BlueberryVaccinium pallidum
Wildlife 193
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Olive-sided FlycatcherContopus cooperi
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
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 Red Crossbill
- 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)















































