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Eurasian Wigeon

Anas penelope

A winter visitor to West Virginia, found in 7 of 55 counties and 1 habitat.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
7 of 55 counties
Habitats
1

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
7 of 55 counties
Habitats
1
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in West Virginia 1

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

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)
Other habitats in its models (26)

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 (18)
  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Land cover and other classes (6)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 7 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 22

Plant genera in its diet records (8)
  • Bolboschoenus 2 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Chara 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Najas 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Potamogeton 1 diet record. 18 native plants in West Virginia
  • Ruppia 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Stuckenia 1 diet record. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Ulva 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Zostera 1 diet record. 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.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 58

Plants 109

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in West Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources