Bird
White Ibis
Eudocimus albus
Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in 10 of 133 counties and cities, across 11 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 10 of 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 11

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 10 of 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 11
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 11
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.





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.
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.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.
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.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Other habitats in its models (43)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.
Seasons in Virginia
- Year-round: nests here, in 2 of 133 counties and cities.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 10 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 210
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Royal FernOsmunda spectabilis
- Dotted SmartweedPersicaria punctata
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Rice CutgrassLeersia oryzoides
- Swamp TupeloNyssa biflora
- Green Arrow-arumPeltandra virginica
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- Swamp RedbayTamala palustris
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Shoreline SedgeCarex hyalinolepis
- Coastal Sweet-pepperbushClethra alnifolia
- Creeping SpikerushEleocharis fallax
- Estuary PipewortEriocaulon parkeri
- Swamp RosemallowHibiscus moscheutos
- Bigleaf Marsh-elderIva frutescens
- Welsh MudwortLimosella australis
- Marsh SeedboxLudwigia palustris
- Sweetbay MagnoliaMagnolia virginiana
- Narrowleaf Pond-lilyNuphar sagittifolia
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Swamp RoseRosa palustris
- Dwarf ArrowheadSagittaria subulata
Wildlife 231
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellata
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Ring-necked PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for White Ibis
- 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)













































