Bird
Alder Flycatcher
Empidonax alnorum
A summer resident that nests in West Virginia. Found in all 55 counties, across 13 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 55 counties
- Habitats
- 13
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 55 counties
- Habitats
- 13
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in West Virginia 13
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
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.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Shady, evergreen forests of eastern or Carolina hemlock, often along rocky mountain streams and in gorges.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Sheltered, moist mountain hollows and lower slopes with deep, fertile soil.
Other habitats in its models (29)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in West Virginia. Those recorded in West Virginia first, the rest by region.
Elsewhere in the South (8)
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
Northeast (4)
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (3)
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (14)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
- Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
Seasons in West Virginia
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 46 of 55 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 18 of 55 counties.
Also found in its main habitats
Its main habitats in West 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.
Alder Flycatcher uses many habitats in West Virginia; these are its 3 most characteristic.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Birds 104
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Snowy OwlBubo scandiacus
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
Plants 303
- Peach Leaf WillowSalix amygdaloides
- White Panicled Aster; Eastern Lined AsterSymphyotrichum lanceolatum var. latifolium
- Rudbeckia fulgida var. spathulataRudbeckia fulgida var. spathulata
- Shagbark HickoryCarya ovata
- Spreading SedgeCarex laxiculmis
- Blunt Broom SedgeCarex tribuloides
- Mountain SilverbellHalesia carolina
- Smooth Hedge-nettleStachys tenuifolia
- Common Cup-plantSilphium perfoliatum
- Camphor PlucheaPluchea camphorata
- Virginia Cup-plantSilphium perfoliatum var. connatum
- Heartleaf NettleUrtica chamaedryoides
Forest edges and thickets
Birds 64
- Hoary RedpollCarduelis hornemanni
- House FinchCarpodacus mexicanus
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Ring-necked PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
Plants 204
- Bristly BlackberryRubus setosus
- Rubus invisusRubus invisus
- Tall LarkspurDelphinium exaltatum
- Northeastern BindweedCalystegia sepium subsp. americana
- Canada PlumPrunus nigra
- ChokecherryPrunus virginiana var. virginiana
- Fire CherryPrunus pensylvanica
- Silky DogwoodCornus obliqua
- Giant SunflowerHelianthus giganteus
- Gray DogwoodCornus racemosa
- Buffalo CloverTrifolium reflexum
- Cutleaf GoldenrodSolidago arguta
Streams, rivers and their banks
Birds 100
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Plants 232
- Sandbar WillowSalix interior
- Primrose-leaf VioletViola primulifolia
- Sand GrapeVitis rupestris
- Tall Blue Wild IndigoBaptisia australis
- Twisted SedgeCarex torta
- Earlyleaf BromeBromus latiglumis
- Greenfruit Bur-reedSparganium emersum var. acaule
- Ferris Scouring RushEquisetum × ferrissii
- Ozark Tassel-rueTrautvetteria applanata
- Virginia Sida; Virginia Mallow; Virginia FanpetalsRipariosida hermaphrodita
- Coastal Plain WillowSalix caroliniana
- Grass-leaved Flat-top GoldenrodEuthamia graminifolia
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Alder Flycatcher
- 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)