Bird

Snow Goose

Chen caerulescens

A winter visitor to Virginia, found in 43 of 133 counties and cities and 8 habitats.

Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 43 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats: 8

Adult Snow Goose, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) sprcrkwild, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 177384624. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 43 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats: 8
Habitat models: Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Virginia 8

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

1 of 8

WinterAtlantic 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.

WinterOpen Water (Fresh); 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.

WinterAtlantic 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.

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.

WinterAtlantic 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.

Winter

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Other habitats in its models (37)

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

Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Winter.
Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Winter.
California Northern Coastal Grassland Winter.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
Recently Burned Winter.
Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
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.
Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Winter.
North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Winter.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Winter.
Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Winter.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Winter.
Great Plains Prairie Pothole Winter.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Winter.
Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Winter.
Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.