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Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 30 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 133 counties and cities
Habitats
30

At a glance

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Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 133 counties and cities
Habitats
30
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Virginia 30

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

Other habitats in its models (480)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Year-round.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Year-round.
  • Barren Land Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North American Warm Desert Active and Stabilized Dune Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Louisiana Beach Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Great Lakes Dune Year-round.
  • Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North American Warm Desert Bedrock Cliff and Outcrop Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Cliff, Canyon and Massive Bedrock Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Cliff and Outcrop Year-round.
  • Great Lakes Acidic Rocky Shore and Cliff Year-round.
  • Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Year-round.
  • Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round.
  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Year-round.
  • North Pacific Montane Massive Bedrock, Cliff and Talus Year-round.
  • North Pacific Coastal Cliff and Bluff Year-round.
  • Southern California Coast Ranges Cliff and Canyon Year-round.
  • Central California Coast Ranges Cliff and Canyon Year-round.
  • Klamath-Siskiyou Cliff and Outcrop Year-round.
  • Sierra Nevada Cliff and Canyon Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Cliff and Canyon Year-round.
  • Southwestern Great Plains Canyon Year-round.
  • Colorado Plateau Mixed Bedrock Canyon and Tableland Year-round.
  • Southern Interior Acid Cliff Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Badland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Year-round.
  • North American Warm Desert Badland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Shale Badland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Mediterranean California Coastal Bluff Year-round.
  • Columbia Plateau Ash and Tuff Badland Year-round.
  • Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Wash Year-round.
  • North Pacific Serpentine Barren Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North American Warm Desert Playa Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Barrens Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Bedrock and Scree Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Rocky Mountain Alpine Bedrock and Scree Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Appalachian Rocky Summit Year-round.
  • Southern Appalachian Granitic Dome Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Volcanic Rock and Cinder Land Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North Pacific Volcanic Rock and Cinder Land Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North American Warm Desert Pavement Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North American Warm Desert Volcanic Rockland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Year-round.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
  • North Pacific Oak Woodland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland Year-round.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Year-round.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Year-round.
  • Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Year-round.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Year-round.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Year-round.
  • Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Year-round.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Year-round.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • Madrean Encinal Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Mixed Oak Woodland Year-round.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Curl-leaf Mountain Mahogany Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
  • North Pacific Broadleaf Landslide Forest and Shrubland Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Year-round.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Year-round.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round.
  • Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Year-round.
  • Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Year-round.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Year-round.
  • Edwards Plateau Mesic Canyon Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Year-round.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Madrean Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Madrean Upper Montane Conifer-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Lower Montane Black Oak-Conifer Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Red Fir Forest Year-round.
  • North Pacific Dry Douglas-fir-(Madrone) Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Mixed Evergreen Forest Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Aspen-Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Year-round.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Year-round.
  • Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Year-round.
  • North Pacific Lowland Mixed Hardwood-Conifer Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Mesic Serpentine Woodland and Chaparral Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna Year-round.
  • Central and Southern California Mixed Evergreen Woodland Year-round.
  • Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Year-round.
  • Columbia Plateau Western Juniper Woodland and Savanna Year-round.
  • Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Subalpine Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Klamath-Siskiyou Lower Montane Serpentine Mixed Conifer Woodland Year-round.
  • Klamath-Siskiyou Upper Montane Serpentine Mixed Conifer Woodland Year-round.
  • Madrean Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Dry-Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • California Montane Jeffrey Pine-(Ponderosa Pine) Woodland Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine Woodland Year-round.
  • North Pacific Maritime Dry-Mesic Douglas-fir-Western Hemlock Forest Year-round.
  • North Pacific Mountain Hemlock Forest Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Woodland and Parkland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Foothill Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine Forest Year-round.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Year-round.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine Dry-Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Sierra Nevada Subalpine Lodgepole Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Year-round.
  • Boreal Jack Pine-Black Spruce Forest Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Year-round.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Barrens Year-round.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Laurentian Jack Pine-Red Pine Forest Year-round.
  • Middle Rocky Mountain Montane Douglas-fir Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Poor-Site Lodgepole Pine Forest Year-round.
  • California Coastal Closed-Cone Conifer Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Sierran-Intermontane Desert Western White Pine-White Fir Woodland Year-round.
  • North Pacific Dry-Mesic Silver Fir-Western Hemlock-Douglas-fir Forest Year-round.
  • Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Year-round.
  • East Cascades Oak-Ponderosa Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Acadian-Appalachian Montane Spruce-Fir Forest Year-round.
  • North Pacific Wooded Volcanic Flowage Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
  • California Coastal Redwood Forest Year-round.
  • East Cascades Mesic Montane Mixed-Conifer Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • North Pacific Hypermaritime Sitka Spruce Forest Year-round.
  • North Pacific Maritime Mesic Subalpine Parkland Year-round.
  • North Pacific Maritime Mesic-Wet Douglas-fir-Western Hemlock Forest Year-round.
  • North Pacific Mesic Western Hemlock-Silver Fir Forest Year-round.
  • Northern California Mesic Subalpine Woodland Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Year-round.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • North Pacific Hypermaritime Western Red-cedar-Western Hemlock Forest Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Alpine Fell-Field Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North Pacific Dry and Mesic Alpine Dwarf-Shrubland, Fell-field and Meadow Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Alpine Dwarf-Shrubland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Alpine Tundra/Fell-field/Dwarf-shrub Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North Pacific Avalanche Chute Shrubland Year-round.
  • Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Avalanche Chute Shrubland Year-round.
  • Chihuahuan Creosotebush, Mixed Desert and Thorn Scrub Year-round.
  • Chihuahuan Mixed Salt Desert Scrub Year-round.
  • Chihuahuan Stabilized Coppice Dune and Sand Flat Scrub Year-round.
  • Chihuahuan Succulent Desert Scrub Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Mixed Salt Desert Scrub Year-round.
  • Mojave Mid-Elevation Mixed Desert Scrub Year-round.
  • Sonora-Mojave Creosotebush-White Bursage Desert Scrub Year-round.
  • Sonora-Mojave Mixed Salt Desert Scrub Year-round.
  • Sonoran Mid-Elevation Desert Scrub Year-round.
  • Southern California Coastal Scrub Year-round.
  • Apacherian-Chihuahuan Mesquite Upland Scrub Year-round.
  • Chihuahuan Mixed Desert and Thorn Scrub Year-round.
  • Sonoran Paloverde-Mixed Cacti Desert Scrub Year-round.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Year-round.
  • Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Year-round.
  • Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Year-round.
  • Northern California Coastal Scrub Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Sandhill Steppe Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Foothill Conifer Wooded Steppe Year-round.
  • Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Year-round.
  • Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Year-round.
  • Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Year-round.
  • Columbia Plateau Low Sagebrush Steppe Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub Steppe Year-round.
  • California Maritime Chaparral Year-round.
  • California Mesic Chaparral Year-round.
  • California Montane Woodland and Chaparral Year-round.
  • California Xeric Serpentine Chaparral Year-round.
  • Madrean Oriental Chaparral Year-round.
  • Great Basin Semi-Desert Chaparral Year-round.
  • Mogollon Chaparral Year-round.
  • Northern and Central California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Year-round.
  • Sonora-Mojave Semi-Desert Chaparral Year-round.
  • Southern California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Year-round.
  • Coahuilan Chaparral Year-round.
  • California Central Valley Mixed Oak Savanna Year-round.
  • California Coastal Live Oak Woodland and Savanna Year-round.
  • California Lower Montane Blue Oak-Foothill Pine Woodland and Savanna Year-round.
  • Southern California Oak Woodland and Savanna Year-round.
  • Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Year-round.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Year-round.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Year-round.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Year-round.
  • Laurentian Pine-Oak Barrens Year-round.
  • Klamath-Siskiyou Xeromorphic Serpentine Savanna and Chaparral Year-round.
  • Paleozoic Plateau Bluff and Talus Year-round.
  • Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Shrubland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Juniper Savanna Year-round.
  • Madrean Juniper Savanna Year-round.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Savanna Year-round.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Year-round.
  • Great Lakes Alvar Year-round.
  • Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Year-round.
  • Columbia Plateau Scabland Shrubland Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Mat Saltbush Shrubland Year-round.
  • Wyoming Basins Dwarf Sagebrush Shrubland and Steppe Year-round.
  • Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland Year-round.
  • Southern Colorado Plateau Sand Shrubland Year-round.
  • Colorado Plateau Blackbrush-Mormon-tea Shrubland Year-round.
  • North Pacific Montane Shrubland Year-round.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Shrubland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Year-round.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Montane-Foothill Deciduous Shrubland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Deciduous Shrubland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Dry Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North Pacific Montane Grassland Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Upper Montane Grassland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Year-round.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Year-round.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Year-round.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Year-round.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Year-round.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • Northern Tallgrass Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Year-round.
  • Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Year-round.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Year-round.
  • Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Year-round.
  • Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Year-round.
  • California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • California Northern Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Year-round.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • South Texas Lomas Year-round.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Llano Uplift Acidic Forest, Woodland and Glade Year-round.
  • North Pacific Hypermaritime Shrub and Herbaceous Headland Year-round.
  • North Pacific Herbaceous Bald and Bluff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Recently Logged Areas Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Northwestern Conifer Regeneration Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Forest Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Recently Chained Pinyon-Juniper Areas Year-round.
  • Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Year-round.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Year-round.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Year-round.
  • North Pacific Shrub Swamp Year-round.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Year-round.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Year-round.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Year-round.
  • North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Year-round.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Year-round.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Year-round.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Year-round.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Year-round.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round.
  • North Pacific Hardwood-Conifer Swamp Year-round.
  • Northern Pacific Mesic Subalpine Woodland Year-round.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Year-round.
  • Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Year-round.
  • North Pacific Bog and Fen Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Fen Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Year-round.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Lowland Year-round.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Year-round.
  • Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Year-round.
  • Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Year-round.
  • Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Year-round.
  • Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Year-round.
  • Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Year-round.
  • South Florida Cypress Dome Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Year-round.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Year-round.
  • Columbia Plateau Vernal Pool Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Year-round.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Year-round.
  • Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Year-round.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
  • California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Greasewood Flat Year-round.
  • North Pacific Lowland Riparian Forest and Shrubland Year-round.
  • North Pacific Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Montane Riparian Systems Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.
  • Eastern Boreal Floodplain Year-round.
  • Tamaulipan Floodplain Year-round.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Year-round.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Year-round.
  • North American Warm Desert Wash Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Year-round.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Year-round.
  • Mississippi River Riparian Forest Year-round.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Year-round.
  • Edwards Plateau Riparian Year-round.
  • Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Woodland Year-round.
  • North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
  • North American Warm Desert Riparian Mesquite Bosque Year-round.
  • North American Warm Desert Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
  • Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Year-round.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • Red River Large Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Seep Year-round.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
  • Mediterranean California Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Year-round.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Riparian Systems Year-round.
  • North American Warm Desert Riparian Systems Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 133 counties and cities.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 1309

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

Wildlife 262

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