Bird
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Ammodramus caudacutus
Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in 37 of 133 counties and cities, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 37 of 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 37 of 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 3
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.


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.
Other habitats in its models (9)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
Seasons in Virginia
- Winter: does not nest here, in 4 of 133 counties and cities.
- Summer: nests here, in 35 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 51
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Black NeedlerushJuncus roemerianus
- Rice CutgrassLeersia oryzoides
- Carolina Sea-lavenderLimonium carolinianum
- Welsh MudwortLimosella australis
- Marsh SeedboxLudwigia palustris
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarulum
- MaidencanePanicum hemitomon
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
- Dotted SmartweedPersicaria punctata
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Starrush Whitetop SedgeRhynchospora colorata
- Shortbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora nitens
- Widgeon-grassRuppia maritima
- Dwarf ArrowheadSagittaria subulata
- Slender Sea-purslaneSesuvium maritimum
- Giant BristlegrassSetaria magna
- Prairie CordgrassSpartina pectinata
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Southern CattailTypha domingensis
- Carolina Yellow-eyed-grassXyris caroliniana
- Common ReedPhragmites australis
- Chinese Tallow-treeTriadica sebifera
Wildlife 154
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
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 Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
- 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)





































