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Bobolink

Dolichonyx oryzivorus

A summer resident that nests in West Virginia. Found in all 55 counties, across 3 habitats.

Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in West Virginia 3

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

1 of 3

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.

Summer

Mountain balds

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

Summer

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration
Other habitats in its models (6)

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 (1)
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
Midwest (1)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
Land cover and other classes (4)
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 51 of 55 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 16 of 55 counties.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 26

Plant genera in its diet records (8)
  • Ambrosia 2 diet records. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Echinochloa 2 diet records. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Oryza 2 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Panicum 2 diet records. 11 native plants in West Virginia
  • Paspalum 2 diet records. 5 native plants in West Virginia
  • Polygonum 2 diet records. 4 native plants in West Virginia
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Urochloa 2 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 96

Plants 905

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in West Virginia

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 120

Plants 12

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in West Virginia

Mountain balds

Birds 34

Plants 65

All of mountain balds in West Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources