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Thayer's Gull

Larus thayeri

A winter visitor to Virginia, found in 33 of 133 counties and cities and 4 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
33 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
33 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Virginia 4

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

1 of 4

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
WinterDeveloped, Open SpaceLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Shown: Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr), a neighboring state.Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain", Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

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

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

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 (3)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia. Those recorded in Virginia first, the rest by region.

Land cover and other classes (3)
  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 33 of 133 counties and cities.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Virginia, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 119

Plants 24

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Virginia

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 88

Plants 1283

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Virginia

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Birds 77

Plants 9

All of sounds, bays and tidal flats in Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources