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American Tree Sparrow

Spizella arborea

A winter visitor to West Virginia, found in all 55 counties and 7 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
7
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in West Virginia 7

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

1 of 7

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.

Winter

Dry forests and woodlands

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

WinterCentral Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland; Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

WinterCentral Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier; Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

WinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Mountain balds

Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.

WinterSouthern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

WinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

WinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems
Other habitats in its models (38)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 55 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 127

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in West Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 212

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in West Virginia. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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