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.
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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.
Food plants
Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.
Native plants in these genera 92
- Smooth SumacRhus glabra
- Eastern Winged SumacRhus copallinum var. latifolia
- Staghorn SumacRhus typhina
- Fragrant Sumac; Squawbush; Squaw BushRhus aromatica var. aromatica
- Michaux's SumacRhus michauxii
- American PlumPrunus americana
- Canada PlumPrunus nigra
- Chickasaw PlumPrunus angustifolia
- ChokecherryPrunus virginiana var. virginiana
- Fire CherryPrunus pensylvanica
- Beach PlumPrunus maritima
- Susquehanna CherryPrunus susquehanae
- Common ElderberrySambucus canadensis
- Red ElderberrySambucus racemosa var. pubens
- Canadian ServiceberryAmelanchier canadensis
- Allegheny ServiceberryAmelanchier laevis
- Downy ServiceberryAmelanchier arborea
- Roundleaf ServiceberryAmelanchier sanguinea
- Coastal ServiceberryAmelanchier obovalis
- Nantucket ServiceberryAmelanchier nantucketensis
- Running ServiceberryAmelanchier spicata
- Common HackberryCeltis occidentalis
- Dwarf HackberryCeltis pumila
Plant genera in its diet records (22)
- Cornus Fruit and seeds. 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Virginia
- Rhus Fruit and seeds. 4 diet records. 6 native plants in Virginia
- Prunus Fruit and seeds. 3 diet records. 7 native plants in Virginia
- Sambucus Fruit and seeds. 3 diet records. 2 native plants in Virginia
- Amelanchier Fruit and seeds. 2 diet records. 7 native plants in Virginia
- Celtis Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Virginia
- Chaetochloa Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Virginia
- Fragaria Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Virginia
- Ilex Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 9 native plants in Virginia
- Lindera Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Virginia
- Maianthemum Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Virginia
- Nyssa Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Virginia
- Parthenocissus Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Virginia
- Phytolacca Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Virginia
- Pyrus Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Virginia
- Rubus Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 9 native plants in Virginia
- Smilax Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 9 native plants in Virginia
- Sorbus Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Virginia
- Sporobolus Seeds. 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Virginia
- Symphoricarpos Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Virginia
- Taxus Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Virginia
- Vaccinium Fruit and seeds. 1 diet record. 16 native plants in Virginia
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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Birds 86
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Snowy OwlBubo scandiacus
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
Plants 381
- Elliott's BlueberryVaccinium elliottii
- Possumhaw HollyIlex decidua
- Cherrybark OakQuercus pagoda
- Appalachian Orange ConeflowerRudbeckia fulgida var. umbrosa
- Shagbark HickoryCarya ovata
- Southern Shagbark HickoryCarya carolinae-septentrionalis
- Spreading SedgeCarex laxiculmis
- Louisiana SedgeCarex louisianica
- Common Cup-plantSilphium perfoliatum
- Smooth Hedge-nettleStachys tenuifolia
- Virginia Cup-plantSilphium connatum
- Coville's PhaceliaPhacelia covillei
Dry forests and woodlands
Birds 68
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- Blackburnian WarblerDendroica fusca
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- White-winged CrossbillLoxia leucoptera
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
Plants 230
- American ChestnutCastanea dentata
- Eastern Winged SumacRhus copallinum var. latifolia
- Godfrey's ThoroughwortEupatorium godfreyanum
- White ThoroughwortEupatorium album
- Sessileleaf Tick-trefoilDesmodium sessilifolium
- Leavenworth's SedgeCarex leavenworthii
- Southern Whitetinge SedgeCarex albicans var. australis
- Southern LoosestrifeSteironema tonsum
- Carolina LilyLilium michauxii
- Tall BellflowerCampanulastrum americanum
- Bigleaf SnowbellStyrax grandifolius
- Delicate Rabbit-tobaccoPseudognaphalium micradenium
Moist forests
Birds 51
- Blackburnian WarblerDendroica fusca
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Canada WarblerWilsonia canadensis
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
Plants 363
- Gorge GoldenrodSolidago faucibus
- Mountain HollyIlex montana
- Smooth Blue AsterSymphyotrichum laeve
- Appalachian SnakerootAgeratina roanensis
- Sweet Scented Joe Pye WeedEutrochium purpureum var. purpureum
- Common Sweet White VioletViola incognita
- Fewflower Tick-trefoilHylodesmum pauciflorum
- Bigleaf MagnoliaMagnolia macrophylla
- Umbrella MagnoliaMagnolia tripetala
- Smooth Carrion-flowerSmilax herbacea
- Pointedleaf Tick-trefoilHylodesmum glutinosum
- Blue Ridge Hedge-nettleStachys subcordata
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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)
- Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab) (CC0 1.0), diet records by plant genus