Bird
Veery
Catharus fuscescens
A summer resident that nests in Virginia. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 13 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 13
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 13
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 13
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
1 of 13
Streams, rivers and their banks
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.
High mountain forests of beech, yellow birch and sugar maple, including boulderfield forests.
Other habitats in its models (17)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia. Those recorded in Virginia first, the rest by region.
Elsewhere in the South (4)
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Northeast (2)
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Midwest (3)
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest 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 Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
Land cover and other classes (8)
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer.
Seasons in Virginia
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 95 of 133 counties and cities.
- Summer: nests here, in 62 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 854
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Ebony SpleenwortAsplenium platyneuron
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
- Paper Birch; Canoe BirchBetula papyrifera
- Purplestem BeggarticksBidens connata
- Northern ShorthuskBrachyelytrum aristosum
- Hairy Woodland BromeBromus pubescens
- Wild HyacinthCamassia scilloides
- Tall BellflowerCampanulastrum americanum
- Trumpet-creeperCampsis radicans
- Eastern Narrowleaf SedgeCarex amphibola
- Eastern Woodland SedgeCarex blanda
- Carey's SedgeCarex careyana
- Cherokee SedgeCarex cherokeensis
- Flexuous White-edge SedgeCarex flexuosa
- Nodding SedgeCarex gynandra
- Hitchcock's SedgeCarex hitchcockiana
- Krals SedgeCarex kraliana
- Plantainleaf SedgeCarex plantaginea
- Purple SedgeCarex purpurifera
- Beaked SedgeCarex schweinitzii
- Pointed Broom SedgeCarex scoparia
- Lined SedgeCarex striatula
- Twisted SedgeCarex torta
- Southern Shagbark HickoryCarya carolinae-septentrionalis
Wildlife 197
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
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NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Veery Elevation 1,066 m to 2,500 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)