Bird
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Accipiter striatus
Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 31 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 31

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 31
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 31
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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.
Granite and other acidic rock outcrops
Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.
Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
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.
Cliffs, ledges and rocky summits






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.
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.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Steep, sun-baked slopes of loose shale with sparse oaks and Virginia pine and their own endemic wildflowers. Linked only where the source names shale barrens; calcareous shale stays with the limestone glades.
Other habitats in its models (441)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Louisiana Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southeast Florida Beach Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Dune Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southwest Florida Beach Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Cliff, Canyon and Massive Bedrock Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Cliff and Outcrop Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Acidic Rocky Shore and Cliff Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North Pacific Montane Massive Bedrock, Cliff and Talus Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North Pacific Coastal Cliff and Bluff Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern California Coast Ranges Cliff and Canyon Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central California Coast Ranges Cliff and Canyon Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Klamath-Siskiyou Cliff and Outcrop Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Sierra Nevada Cliff and Canyon Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Cliff and Canyon Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southwestern Great Plains Canyon Summer and winter.
- Southern Interior Acid Cliff Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mediterranean California Coastal Bluff Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Wash Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North Pacific Serpentine Barren Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mediterranean California Serpentine Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North Pacific Oak Woodland Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Summer and winter.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Madrean Encinal Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Mixed Oak Woodland Summer and winter.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Broadleaf Landslide Forest and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Mesic Canyon Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Madrean Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Madrean Upper Montane Conifer-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Lower Montane Black Oak-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Red Fir Forest Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Dry Douglas-fir-(Madrone) Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Mixed Evergreen Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Aspen-Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Lowland Mixed Hardwood-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna Summer and winter.
- Central and Southern California Mixed Evergreen Woodland Summer and winter.
- Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
- Columbia Plateau Western Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
- Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Subalpine Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Klamath-Siskiyou Lower Montane Serpentine Mixed Conifer Woodland Summer and winter.
- Klamath-Siskiyou Upper Montane Serpentine Mixed Conifer Woodland Summer and winter.
- Madrean Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Dry-Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- California Montane Jeffrey Pine-(Ponderosa Pine) Woodland Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Woodland Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Maritime Dry-Mesic Douglas-fir-Western Hemlock Forest Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Mountain Hemlock Forest Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Woodland and Parkland Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Foothill Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Dry-Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Sierra Nevada Subalpine Lodgepole Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
- Boreal Jack Pine-Black Spruce Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Barrens Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
- Laurentian Jack Pine-Red Pine Forest Summer and winter.
- Middle Rocky Mountain Montane Douglas-fir Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Poor-Site Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer and winter.
- California Coastal Closed-Cone Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Sierran-Intermontane Desert Western White Pine-White Fir Woodland Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Dry-Mesic Silver Fir-Western Hemlock-Douglas-fir Forest Summer and winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer and winter.
- East Cascades Oak-Ponderosa Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Acadian-Appalachian Montane Spruce-Fir Forest Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Wooded Volcanic Flowage Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- California Coastal Redwood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Cascades Mesic Montane Mixed-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Hypermaritime Sitka Spruce Forest Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Maritime Mesic Subalpine Parkland Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Maritime Mesic-Wet Douglas-fir-Western Hemlock Forest Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Mesic Western Hemlock-Silver Fir Forest Summer and winter.
- Northern California Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Hypermaritime Western Red-cedar-Western Hemlock Forest Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Avalanche Chute Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Avalanche Chute Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mojave Mid-Elevation Mixed Desert Scrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern California Coastal Scrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern California Coastal Scrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Sandhill Steppe Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Foothill Conifer Wooded Steppe Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Columbia Plateau Low Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mogollon Chaparral Summer and winter.
- Northern and Central California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer and winter.
- Southern California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- California Central Valley Mixed Oak Savanna Summer and winter.
- California Coastal Live Oak Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
- California Lower Montane Blue Oak-Foothill Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
- Southern California Oak Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
- Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Klamath-Siskiyou Xeromorphic Serpentine Savanna and Chaparral Summer and winter.
- Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Juniper Savanna Summer and winter.
- Madrean Juniper Savanna Summer and winter.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Savanna Summer and winter.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
- Great Lakes Alvar Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Columbia Plateau Scabland Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Wyoming Basins Dwarf Sagebrush Shrubland and Steppe Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Colorado Plateau Sand Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Colorado Plateau Blackbrush-Mormon-tea Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North Pacific Montane Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northwestern Great Plains Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Montane-Foothill Deciduous Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Deciduous Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Dry Tundra Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Dry Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Upper Montane Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Dry Prairie Winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- California Northern Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter, beside its main habitat.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Llano Uplift Acidic Forest, Woodland and Glade Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Herbaceous Bald and Bluff Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Harvested Forest - Northwestern Conifer Regeneration Summer and winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Chained Pinyon-Juniper Areas Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North Pacific Maritime Eelgrass Bed Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Shrub Swamp Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Winter.
- North Pacific Hardwood-Conifer Swamp Summer and winter.
- Northern Pacific Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer and winter.
- Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North Pacific Bog and Fen Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Lowland Summer and winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Columbia Plateau Vernal Pool Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Lowland Riparian Forest and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Montane Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer and winter.
- Tamaulipan Floodplain Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Wash Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Edwards Plateau Riparian Summer and winter.
- Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Woodland Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Riparian Mesquite Bosque Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Red River Large Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Mediterranean California Serpentine Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Seep Summer and winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- South Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Seasons in Virginia
- Year-round: nests here, in 108 of 133 counties and cities.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 38 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 1318
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Mountain LaurelKalmia latifolia
- White OakQuercus alba
- Flowering DogwoodBenthamidia florida
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- Virginia CreeperParthenocissus quinquefolia
- American BeechFagus grandifolia
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- White AshFraxinus americana
- TuliptreeLiriodendron tulipifera
- SourwoodOxydendrum arboreum
- Virginia PinePinus virginiana
- Chestnut OakQuercus montana
- Mockernut HickoryCarya tomentosa
- Black HuckleberryGaylussacia baccata
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- Christmas FernPolystichum acrostichoides
- Poverty OatgrassDanthonia spicata
- Northern SpicebushLindera benzoin
- BlackgumNyssa sylvatica
- American GinsengPanax quinquefolius
- Southern Red OakQuercus falcata
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Rosebay RhododendronRhododendron maximum
Wildlife 262
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
- American CootFulica americana
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 Sharp-shinned Hawk Elevation up to 3,660 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)
















































