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White-winged Crossbill

Loxia leucoptera

A winter visitor to Virginia, found in 37 of 133 counties and cities and 8 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
37 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
8

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
37 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
8
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Virginia 8

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

1 of 8

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Bald Face from Lake Fairfield, Sapphire, N.C.
WinterCumberland Sandstone Glade and BarrensBald Face above Lake Fairfield, Sapphire, North Carolina: a bare granite dome rising above forest and a still lake (photochrom print, about 1902). Shown: Bald Face (Big Bald Face) above Lake Fairfield, Sapphire, Jackson County, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Bald Face from Lake Fairfield, Sapphire, N.C., Detroit Publishing Co. (photochrom print), c. 1902. Public domain. Source record.

Hemlock forests

Hemlock forest / rocky mountain stream
WinterAppalachian Hemlock-Hardwood ForestRegional / representative. Shown: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee; representative habitat composite, not a documented exact viewpoint, a neighboring state.Hemlock forest / rocky mountain stream, Hynes, Robert 'Bob', by 2012. Public domain. Source record.

Spruce-fir forests

Spruce-fir forest
WinterRegional / representative. Shown: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee; representative habitat composite, not a documented exact viewpoint, a neighboring state.Spruce-fir forest, Hynes, Robert 'Bob', by 2012. Public domain. Source record.

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

WinterSouthern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest; Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest; Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland; Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland; Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.

WinterRidge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest

Shale barrens

Steep, sun-baked slopes of loose shale with sparse oaks and Virginia pine and their own endemic wildflowers. Linked only where the source names shale barrens; calcareous shale stays with the limestone glades.

Winter

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

WinterEvergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (23)

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

In Virginia 2

  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Winter.
Elsewhere in the South (9)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Winter.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Winter.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Winter.
  • Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Winter.
Land cover and other classes (10)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 37 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 25

Plant genera in its diet records (9)
  • Abies 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Virginia
  • Alopecurus 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Virginia
  • Ambrosia 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Virginia
  • Empetrum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Virginia
  • Gaylussacia 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Virginia
  • Helianthus 1 diet record. 10 native plants in Virginia
  • Juniperus 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Virginia
  • Picea 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Virginia
  • Tsuga 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Virginia

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.

Dry forests and woodlands

Birds 68

Plants 230

All of dry forests and woodlands in Virginia

Tree plantations and managed pine

Birds 42

Plants 2

All of tree plantations and managed pine in Virginia

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Birds 24

Plants 52

All of granite and other acidic rock outcrops in Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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