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Ring-necked Pheasant

Phasianus colchicus

Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in 39 of 133 counties and cities, across 9 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
39 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
9

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
39 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
9
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Virginia 9

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

1 of 9

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Year-roundCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Coastal dunes and beaches

Core Banks dunes, June 2013
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Atlantic 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.

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Yellow butterwort beside a moss-hung coastal pond
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.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.

Salt and brackish marshes

Fort Fisher brackish marsh and woodland edge
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Atlantic 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.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.

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.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Atlantic 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.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh
Other habitats in its models (27)

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

  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Year-round, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Year-round: nests here, in 39 of 133 counties and cities.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 99

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

Wildlife 249

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