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Stilt Sandpiper

Calidris himantopus

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Migratory in Virginia, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 9 habitats found here.

Seasons here
Migratory
Breeding
Nonbreeding
Range
133 of 133 counties
Habitats
9

At a glance

Group
Birds
Seasons in Virginia
Migratory
Breeding
Nonbreeding
Counties in known range
133 of 133
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

Southeast habitat models (USGS, 2001 land cover). The bird is not in every place a habitat occurs. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models Winter model

Habitats in Virginia 9

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. Shared habitat, not food.

1 of 9

Coastal dunes and beaches

Core Banks dunes, June 2013
WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)Dune 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.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Yellow butterwort beside a moss-hung coastal pond
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.

Salt and brackish marshes

Fort Fisher brackish marsh and woodland edge
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.

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.

Winter

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

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)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Winter. Only within 120 m of waterCultivated Cropland
Other habitats in its models (18)

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

  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter
  • Unconsolidated Shore 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
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter
  • Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Winter
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter

Habitat names: NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0.

Seasons in Virginia

Modeled range from USGS maps (2001), by watershed. Not sighting records. Migratory gives no dates. USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps

  • Migratory. Nonbreeding. Range includes 133 of 133 counties and cities

Also found in this habitat

Plants 103

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 247

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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