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Blue-winged Warbler

Vermivora pinus

A summer resident that nests in West Virginia. Found in all 55 counties, across 8 habitats.

Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
8

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
8
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in West Virginia 8

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

1 of 8

Dry forests and woodlands

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

SummerSouthern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric; Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood; Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest; Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

SummerCentral Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

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

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

SummerSouthern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerSouth-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerPasture/Hay

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerSouth-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

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.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (32)

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

  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 1 of 55 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in all 55 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 583

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

Wildlife 197

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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