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.


Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone











Streams, rivers and their banks


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.
Granite and other acidic rock outcrops
Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.
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.
Wet, open, peaty mountain wetlands fed by seepage, often with sphagnum moss.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
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.
- Great Lakes Dune Summer.
- Western Great Plains Cliff and Outcrop Summer.
- Southwestern Great Plains Canyon Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- North Pacific Oak Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Summer.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Summer.
- Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Madrean Encinal Summer.
- Mediterranean California Mixed Oak Woodland Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Summer.
- North Pacific Broadleaf Landslide Forest and Shrubland Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer.
- Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Mesic Canyon Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Madrean Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Madrean Upper Montane Conifer-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Lower Montane Black Oak-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North Pacific Dry Douglas-fir-(Madrone) Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Mixed Evergreen Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Aspen-Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer.
- Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer.
- North Pacific Lowland Mixed Hardwood-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Mesic Serpentine Woodland and Chaparral Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly 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.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly 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.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Western Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Subalpine Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer.
- Madrean Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Dry-Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- California Montane Jeffrey Pine-(Ponderosa Pine) Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Woodland Summer.
- North Pacific Maritime Dry-Mesic Douglas-fir-Western Hemlock Forest Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Woodland and Parkland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Foothill Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Dry-Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer.
- Sierra Nevada Subalpine Lodgepole Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Boreal Jack Pine-Black Spruce Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Barrens Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Laurentian Jack Pine-Red Pine Forest Summer.
- Middle Rocky Mountain Montane Douglas-fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Poor-Site Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer.
- California Coastal Closed-Cone Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Sierran-Intermontane Desert Western White Pine-White Fir Woodland Summer.
- North Pacific Dry-Mesic Silver Fir-Western Hemlock-Douglas-fir Forest Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer.
- East Cascades Oak-Ponderosa Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North Pacific Wooded Volcanic Flowage Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- California Coastal Redwood Forest Summer.
- East Cascades Mesic Montane Mixed-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North Pacific Hypermaritime Sitka Spruce 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.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North Pacific Hypermaritime Western Red-cedar-Western Hemlock Forest Summer.
- North Pacific Dry and Mesic Alpine Dwarf-Shrubland, Fell-field and Meadow Summer.
- North Pacific Avalanche Chute Shrubland Summer.
- Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Avalanche Chute Shrubland Summer.
- Southern California Coastal Scrub Summer.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer.
- Northern California Coastal Scrub Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Foothill Conifer Wooded Steppe Summer.
- Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer.
- California Maritime Chaparral Summer.
- California Mesic Chaparral Summer.
- California Montane Woodland and Chaparral Summer.
- California Xeric Serpentine Chaparral Summer.
- Mogollon Chaparral Summer.
- Northern and Central California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer.
- Southern California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer.
- California Central Valley Mixed Oak Savanna Summer.
- California Coastal Live Oak Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- California Lower Montane Blue Oak-Foothill Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Southern California Oak Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
- Laurentian Pine-Oak Barrens Summer.
- Klamath-Siskiyou Xeromorphic Serpentine Savanna and Chaparral Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Savanna Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Great Lakes Alvar Summer.
- North Pacific Montane Shrubland Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Shrubland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Montane-Foothill Deciduous Shrubland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Deciduous Shrubland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Summer.
- North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Upper Montane Grassland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Summer.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
- Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
- Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Summer.
- Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer.
- Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer.
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
- Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Summer.
- Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer.
- California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Summer.
- Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Summer.
- California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer.
- California Northern Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- North Pacific Hypermaritime Shrub and Herbaceous Headland Summer.
- North Pacific Herbaceous Bald and Bluff Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- Harvested Forest - Northwestern Conifer Regeneration Summer.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer.
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
- North Pacific Shrub Swamp Summer.
- Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer.
- North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer.
- North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer.
- Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Summer.
- North Pacific Hardwood-Conifer Swamp Summer.
- Northern Pacific Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
- Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
- North Pacific Bog and Fen Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
- Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Lowland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Summer.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer.
- Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Vernal Pool Summer.
- Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- North Pacific Lowland Riparian Forest and Shrubland Summer.
- North Pacific Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
- Tamaulipan Floodplain Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Wash Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Riparian Summer.
- Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Woodland 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.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Mediterranean California Serpentine Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Seep Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
- Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer.
- Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Riparian Systems Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory 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.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Virginia
- Summer: nests here, in all 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 1285
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- White OakQuercus alba
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- Mountain LaurelKalmia latifolia
- Flowering DogwoodBenthamidia florida
- American BeechFagus grandifolia
- TuliptreeLiriodendron tulipifera
- Virginia CreeperParthenocissus quinquefolia
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- White AshFraxinus americana
- SourwoodOxydendrum arboreum
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- Christmas FernPolystichum acrostichoides
- Chestnut OakQuercus montana
- Mockernut HickoryCarya tomentosa
- Black HuckleberryGaylussacia baccata
- Northern SpicebushLindera benzoin
- BlackgumNyssa sylvatica
- Virginia PinePinus virginiana
- Southern Red OakQuercus falcata
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Sun-facing ConeflowerRudbeckia heliopsidis
- American GinsengPanax quinquefolius
- Scarlet OakQuercus coccinea
Wildlife 262
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
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)

















































