Bird
Yellow-breasted Chat
Icteria virens
A summer resident that nests in Virginia. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 29 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 29
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 29
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Virginia 29
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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Granite and other acidic rock outcrops
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Streams, rivers and their banks
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
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.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.
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-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.
Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.
High mountain forests of beech, yellow birch and sugar maple, including boulderfield forests.
Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.
Dense evergreen shrub wetlands and bay forests on wet, acid peat of the Coastal Plain.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
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.
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.
Other habitats in its models (359)
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 Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
Elsewhere in the South (100)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.
- Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer.
- Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Mesic Canyon Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Riparian Summer.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer.
- Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Lowland Summer.
- Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer.
- Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Southwestern Great Plains Canyon Summer.
- Tamaulipan Floodplain Summer.
- Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Summer.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Northeast (15)
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Summer.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
- Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Barrens Summer.
Midwest (31)
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Summer.
- Great Lakes Alvar Summer.
- Great Lakes Dune Summer.
- Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Summer.
- Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
- Laurentian Jack Pine-Red Pine Forest Summer.
- Laurentian Pine-Oak Barrens Summer.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
- Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer.
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Shrubland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer.
- Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer.
West (132)
- California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer.
- California Central Valley Mixed Oak Savanna Summer.
- California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- California Coastal Closed-Cone Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- California Coastal Live Oak Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- California Coastal Redwood Forest Summer.
- California Lower Montane Blue Oak-Foothill Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- California Maritime Chaparral Summer.
- California Mesic Chaparral Summer.
- California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Summer.
- California Montane Jeffrey Pine-(Ponderosa Pine) Woodland Summer.
- California Montane Woodland and Chaparral Summer.
- California Northern Coastal Grassland Summer.
- California Xeric Serpentine Chaparral Summer.
- Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer.
- Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer.
- Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Vernal Pool Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Western Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- East Cascades Mesic Montane Mixed-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- East Cascades Oak-Ponderosa Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Aspen-Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Subalpine Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer.
- Klamath-Siskiyou Xeromorphic Serpentine Savanna and Chaparral Summer.
- Madrean Encinal Summer.
- Madrean Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Madrean Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Madrean Upper Montane Conifer-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Dry-Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Lower Montane Black Oak-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Mesic Serpentine Woodland and Chaparral Summer.
- Mediterranean California Mixed Evergreen Forest Summer.
- Mediterranean California Mixed Oak Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Summer.
- Mediterranean California Serpentine Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Seep Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
- Middle Rocky Mountain Montane Douglas-fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Mogollon Chaparral Summer.
- North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Riparian Mesquite Bosque Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Wash Summer.
- North Pacific Avalanche Chute Shrubland Summer.
- North Pacific Bog and Fen Summer.
- North Pacific Broadleaf Landslide Forest and Shrubland Summer.
- North Pacific Dry and Mesic Alpine Dwarf-Shrubland, Fell-field and Meadow Summer.
- North Pacific Dry Douglas-fir-(Madrone) Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North Pacific Dry-Mesic Silver Fir-Western Hemlock-Douglas-fir Forest Summer.
- North Pacific Hardwood-Conifer Swamp Summer.
- North Pacific Herbaceous Bald and Bluff Summer.
- North Pacific Hypermaritime Shrub and Herbaceous Headland Summer.
- North Pacific Hypermaritime Sitka Spruce Forest Summer.
- North Pacific Hypermaritime Western Red-cedar-Western Hemlock Forest Summer.
- North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer.
- North Pacific Lowland Riparian Forest and Shrubland Summer.
- North Pacific Maritime Dry-Mesic Douglas-fir-Western Hemlock Forest Summer.
- North Pacific Maritime Mesic Subalpine Parkland Summer.
- North Pacific Maritime Mesic-Wet Douglas-fir-Western Hemlock Forest Summer.
- North Pacific Mesic Western Hemlock-Silver Fir Forest Summer.
- North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer.
- North Pacific Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- North Pacific Montane Shrubland Summer.
- North Pacific Oak Woodland Summer.
- North Pacific Shrub Swamp Summer.
- North Pacific Wooded Volcanic Flowage Summer.
- Northern and Central California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer.
- Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer.
- Northern California Coastal Scrub Summer.
- Northern Pacific Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Avalanche Chute Shrubland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Foothill Conifer Wooded Steppe Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Montane-Foothill Deciduous Shrubland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Deciduous Shrubland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Woodland and Parkland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Upper Montane Grassland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Foothill Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Poor-Site Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Dry-Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Woodland Summer.
- Sierra Nevada Subalpine Lodgepole Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Sierran-Intermontane Desert Western White Pine-White Fir Woodland Summer.
- Southern California Coastal Scrub Summer.
- Southern California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer.
- Southern California Oak Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Savanna Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
- Western Great Plains Cliff and Outcrop Summer.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer.
- Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer.
- Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer.
Land cover and other classes (79)
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
- Boreal Jack Pine-Black Spruce Forest Summer.
- Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
- Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
- Harvested Forest - Northwestern Conifer Regeneration Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Riparian Systems Summer.
- North Pacific Lowland Mixed Hardwood-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer.
- Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer.
- Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
Seasons in Virginia
- Summer: nests here, in all 133 counties and cities.
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.
Yellow-breasted Chat uses many habitats in Virginia; these are its 3 most characteristic.
Dry forests and woodlands
Birds 69
- 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
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Birds 87
- 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
Swamps
Birds 83
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- King RailRallus elegans
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- RedheadAythya americana
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
Plants 318
- Dense-flower SmartweedPersicaria densiflora
- Carolina AshFraxinus caroliniana
- Water HickoryCarya aquatica
- Bent SedgeCarex styloflexa
- Cypress-swamp SedgeCarex joorii
- Fringed SedgeCarex crinita
- Ravenfoot SedgeCarex crus-corvi
- Weak Stellate SedgeCarex seorsa
- Swamp ButtercupRanunculus septentrionalis
- Drooping BulrushScirpus lineatus
- Shield Marsh-pennywortHydrocotyle verticillata
- Spreading BulrushScirpus divaricatus
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Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Yellow-breasted Chat
- 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)