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Western Sandpiper

Calidris mauri

A winter visitor to Virginia, found in all 133 counties and cities and 5 habitats.

Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 133 counties and cities
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 133 counties and cities
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Virginia 5

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

1 of 5

Coastal dunes and beaches

Core Banks dunes, June 2013
WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal WetlandDune 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.

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

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 (19)

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

  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
  • Louisiana Beach Winter.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
  • Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune 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.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 75 of 133 counties and cities.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in 72 of 133 counties and cities.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 52

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

Wildlife 218

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.

Sources