Bird
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianus
A summer resident that nests in Virginia. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 17 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 17
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 17
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 17
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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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.
Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.
Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.
High mountain forests of beech, yellow birch and sugar maple, including boulderfield forests.
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.
Open, wet, grassy or sedgy ground that is not a bog.
Other habitats in its models (30)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia. Those recorded in Virginia first, the rest by region.
Elsewhere in the South (2)
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
Northeast (9)
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Summer.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Midwest (6)
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer.
- Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
Land cover and other classes (13)
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas 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.
Food plants
Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.
Native plants in these genera 244
- Bear OakQuercus ilicifolia
- Black OakQuercus velutina
- Bluejack OakQuercus incana
- Cherrybark OakQuercus pagoda
- Chestnut OakQuercus montana
- Chinquapin OakQuercus muehlenbergii
- Darlington OakQuercus hemisphaerica
- Dwarf Chinquapin OakQuercus prinoides
- Laurel OakQuercus laurifolia
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Overcup OakQuercus lyrata
- Pin OakQuercus palustris
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Red Oak; Northern Red OakQuercus rubra var. rubra
- Scarlet OakQuercus coccinea
- Shingle OakQuercus imbricaria
- Shumard OakQuercus shumardii
- Southern Red OakQuercus falcata
- Swamp Chestnut OakQuercus michauxii
- Swamp White OakQuercus bicolor
- Turkey OakQuercus laevis
- Water OakQuercus nigra
- White OakQuercus alba
- Willow OakQuercus phellos
Plant genera in its diet records (17)
- Pisum 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Virginia
- Quercus Flowers and seeds. 3 diet records. 27 native plants in Virginia
- Acer Flowers. 1 diet record. 8 native plants in Virginia
- Amelanchier Fruit. 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Virginia
- Avena Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Virginia
- Carex Seeds. 1 diet record. 170 native plants in Virginia
- Carya 1 diet record. 8 native plants in Virginia
- Cenchrus Fruit. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Virginia
- Fagus Flowers. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Virginia
- Impatiens Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Virginia
- Populus Flowers. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Virginia
- Rubus Fruit. 1 diet record. 9 native plants in Virginia
- Sambucus Flowers. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Virginia
- Sanguinaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Virginia
- Solanum Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Virginia
- Triticum Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Virginia
- Zea 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Virginia
Also found in its main habitats
Its main habitats in Virginia, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.
Dry forests and woodlands
Birds 59
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- Blackburnian WarblerDendroica fusca
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- White-winged CrossbillLoxia leucoptera
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Canada WarblerWilsonia canadensis
Plants 230
- American ChestnutCastanea dentata
- Eastern Winged SumacRhus copallinum var. latifolia
- Godfrey's ThoroughwortEupatorium godfreyanum
- White ThoroughwortEupatorium album
- Sessileleaf Tick-trefoilDesmodium sessilifolium
- Leavenworth's SedgeCarex leavenworthii
- Southern Whitetinge SedgeCarex albicans var. australis
- Southern LoosestrifeSteironema tonsum
- Carolina LilyLilium michauxii
- Tall BellflowerCampanulastrum americanum
- Bigleaf SnowbellStyrax grandifolius
- Delicate Rabbit-tobaccoPseudognaphalium micradenium
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Birds 74
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Snowy OwlBubo scandiacus
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopus
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
Plants 381
- Elliott's BlueberryVaccinium elliottii
- Possumhaw HollyIlex decidua
- Cherrybark OakQuercus pagoda
- Appalachian Orange ConeflowerRudbeckia fulgida var. umbrosa
- Shagbark HickoryCarya ovata
- Southern Shagbark HickoryCarya carolinae-septentrionalis
- Spreading SedgeCarex laxiculmis
- Louisiana SedgeCarex louisianica
- Common Cup-plantSilphium perfoliatum
- Smooth Hedge-nettleStachys tenuifolia
- Virginia Cup-plantSilphium connatum
- Coville's PhaceliaPhacelia covillei
Forest edges and thickets
Birds 40
- Hoary RedpollCarduelis hornemanni
- House FinchCarpodacus mexicanus
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
Plants 244
- Bristly BlackberryRubus setosus
- Tall LarkspurDelphinium exaltatum
- Canada PlumPrunus nigra
- ChokecherryPrunus virginiana var. virginiana
- Fire CherryPrunus pensylvanica
- Silky DogwoodSwida obliqua
- Giant SunflowerHelianthus giganteus
- Gray DogwoodSwida racemosa
- Southern DewberryRubus trivialis
- Buffalo CloverTrifolium reflexum
- Cutleaf GoldenrodSolidago arguta
- Hairy GoldenrodSolidago hispida var. hispida
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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)
- Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab) (CC0 1.0), diet records by plant genus