Bird
Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularius
A summer resident that nests in Virginia. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 28 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 28

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 28
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 28
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.






Streams, rivers and their banks


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.
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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
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.
Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone






Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
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.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
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.
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 (340)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Barren Land Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Active and Stabilized Dune Summer and winter.
- Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
- Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
- Great Lakes Dune Summer.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Summer and winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
- Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Wash Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Serpentine Barren Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Serpentine Barrens Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer and winter.
- Geysers and Hot Springs Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Oak Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Mediterranean California Mixed Oak Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Curl-leaf Mountain Mahogany Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Mediterranean California Lower Montane Black Oak-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Mediterranean California Red Fir Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Dry Douglas-fir-(Madrone) Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Mediterranean California Mixed Evergreen Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Aspen-Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Lowland Mixed Hardwood-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Mediterranean California Mesic Serpentine Woodland and Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Central and Southern California Mixed Evergreen Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Columbia Plateau Western Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Subalpine Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Klamath-Siskiyou Lower Montane Serpentine Mixed Conifer Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Klamath-Siskiyou Upper Montane Serpentine Mixed Conifer Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Mediterranean California Dry-Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- California Montane Jeffrey Pine-(Ponderosa Pine) Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Maritime Dry-Mesic Douglas-fir-Western Hemlock Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Mountain Hemlock Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Woodland and Parkland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Foothill Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Dry-Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Sierra Nevada Subalpine Lodgepole Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Boreal Jack Pine-Black Spruce Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Laurentian Jack Pine-Red Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Middle Rocky Mountain Montane Douglas-fir Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Poor-Site Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- California Coastal Closed-Cone Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Sierran-Intermontane Desert Western White Pine-White Fir Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Dry-Mesic Silver Fir-Western Hemlock-Douglas-fir Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- East Cascades Oak-Ponderosa Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North Pacific Wooded Volcanic Flowage Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- California Coastal Redwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- East Cascades Mesic Montane Mixed-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Mediterranean California Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Hypermaritime Sitka Spruce Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Maritime Mesic Subalpine Parkland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Maritime Mesic-Wet Douglas-fir-Western Hemlock Forest Summer.
- North Pacific Mesic Western Hemlock-Silver Fir Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern California Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Hypermaritime Western Red-cedar-Western Hemlock Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Fell-Field Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Dry and Mesic Alpine Dwarf-Shrubland, Fell-field and Meadow Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Acadian-Appalachian Alpine Tundra Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Western Great Plains Sandhill Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Foothill Conifer Wooded Steppe Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Columbia Plateau Low Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- California Montane Woodland and Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- California Xeric Serpentine Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Great Basin Semi-Desert Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Mogollon Chaparral Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern and Central California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Coahuilan Chaparral Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- California Central Valley Mixed Oak Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- California Coastal Live Oak Woodland and Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- California Lower Montane Blue Oak-Foothill Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern California Oak Woodland and Savanna Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Laurentian Pine-Oak Barrens Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Klamath-Siskiyou Xeromorphic Serpentine Savanna and Chaparral Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Shrubland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Juniper Savanna Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Madrean Juniper Savanna Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Savanna Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Great Lakes Alvar Summer.
- Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Columbia Plateau Scabland Shrubland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Wyoming Basins Dwarf Sagebrush Shrubland and Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Colorado Plateau Sand Shrubland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Montane Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Dry Tundra Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Dry Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Upper Montane Grassland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Florida Dry Prairie Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Summer.
- California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- California Northern Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, only within 250 m of water.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Llano Uplift Acidic Forest, Woodland and Glade Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Hypermaritime Shrub and Herbaceous Headland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Herbaceous Bald and Bluff Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Recently Burned Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Recently Chained Pinyon-Juniper Areas Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and 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 Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer and winter.
- North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
- Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Summer.
- North Pacific Hardwood-Conifer Swamp Summer and winter.
- Northern Pacific Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
- Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer and winter.
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
- North Pacific Bog and Fen Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Lowland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer and winter.
- Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer and winter.
- Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Winter.
- Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Winter.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
- Columbia Plateau Vernal Pool Summer and winter.
- Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- 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.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Winter.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
- 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.
- 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 Winter.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock 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.
- Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
- Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Mediterranean California Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
- Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Riparian Systems Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Winter.
Seasons in Virginia
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 11 of 133 counties and cities.
- Summer: nests here, in 127 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 1272
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Partridge-berryMitchella repens
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Green Arrow-arumPeltandra virginica
- Pteridium aquilinumPteridium aquilinum
- Water OakQuercus nigra
- Blue Ridge CatchflySilene ovata
- Black CohoshActaea racemosa
- Great Indian-plantainArnoglossum reniforme
- PiratebushBuckleya distichophylla
- Sweet WoodreedCinna arundinacea
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
- False Solomon's-sealMaianthemum racemosum
- American Hop-hornbeamOstrya virginiana
- Shortleaf PinePinus echinata
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Rock SkullcapScutellaria saxatilis
- StarflowerTrientalis borealis
- Carolina HemlockTsuga caroliniana
- White MonkshoodAconitum reclinatum
- Yellow BuckeyeAesculus flava
- White SnakerootAgeratina altissima
- Appalachian SnakerootAgeratina roanensis
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- New York FernAmauropelta noveboracensis
Wildlife 262
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
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 Spotted Sandpiper Elevation up to 4,700 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)














































