Bird
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianus
A summer resident that nests in Virginia. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 15 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 15
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 15
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 15
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Streams, rivers and their banks
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.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.
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 (31)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Summer.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
- Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Virginia
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 97 of 133 counties and cities.
- Summer: nests here, in 57 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 644
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Bulblet Bladder FernCystopteris bulbifera
- Lowland Bladder FernCystopteris protrusa
- Silvery SpleenwortDeparia acrostichoides
- Umbrella-leafDiphylleia cymosa
- Marginal Wood-fernDryopteris marginalis
- Trailing ArbutusEpigaea repens
- Mountain Wood-asterEurybia chlorolepis
- White Wood-asterEurybia divaricata
- Creeping AsterEurybia surculosa
- Licorice BedstrawGalium circaezans
- Appalachian GentianGentiana austromontana
- Cow-parsnipHeracleum maximum
- Carolina AlumrootHeuchera caroliniana
- Virginia HeartleafHexastylis virginica
- Glade FernHomalosorus pycnocarpos
- Smooth HydrangeaHydrangea arborescens
- Longstalk HollyIlex collina
- Spotted JewelweedImpatiens capensis
- Pale JewelweedImpatiens pallida
- PipevineIsotrema macrophyllum
- Highland DoghobbleLeucothoe fontanesiana
- Fen OrchidLiparis loeselii
- Whorled LoosestrifeLysimachia quadrifolia
- Bigleaf MagnoliaMagnolia macrophylla
Wildlife 238
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
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NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Rose-breasted Grosbeak Elevation up to 2,500 m
- 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)