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Willet

Tringa semipalmata

Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in 19 of 133 counties and cities, across 5 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
19 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
19 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Summer, 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
SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach; Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy BeachDune 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.

Salt and brackish marshes

Fort Fisher brackish marsh and woodland edge
SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt MarshBrackish marsh at a woodland edge. Shown: Fort Fisher, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Fort Fisher brackish marsh and woodland edge, ncwetlands.org, undated. CC0 1.0. Source record.

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.

SummerWinter

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.

SummerWinter

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.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (64)

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

  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer and winter.
  • Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
  • Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer and winter.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Winter.
  • North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer and winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
  • Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Columbia Plateau Low Sagebrush Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Columbia Plateau Scabland Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
  • 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.
  • Mediterranean California Eelgrass Bed Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Winter, only within 60 m of water.
  • North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Winter.
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
  • North Pacific Bog and Fen Winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
  • Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer.
  • Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Winter.
  • Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer, only within 60 m of water.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Year-round: nests here, in 19 of 133 counties and cities.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 43

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