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Golden Eagle

Aquila chrysaetos

A winter visitor to West Virginia, found in 53 of 55 counties and 4 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
53 of 55 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
53 of 55 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in West Virginia 4

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

1 of 4

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.

WinterNorth-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus; Southern Interior Acid Cliff

Mountain balds

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

WinterSouthern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier; Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier

Shale barrens

Steep, sun-baked slopes of loose shale with sparse oaks and Virginia pine and their own endemic wildflowers. Linked only where the source names shale barrens; calcareous shale stays with the limestone glades.

Winter

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

WinterCumberland Riverscour
Other habitats in its models (14)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in West Virginia. Those recorded in West Virginia first, the rest by region.

In West Virginia 1

  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Winter.
Elsewhere in the South (9)
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Granitic Dome Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Rocky Summit Winter.
  • Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Cliff Winter.
Northeast (1)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
Midwest (1)
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.
Land cover and other classes (2)
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 53 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.

Mountain balds

Birds 34

Plants 65

All of mountain balds in West Virginia

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Birds 12

Plants 36

All of granite and other acidic rock outcrops in West Virginia

Shale barrens

Birds 24

Plants 36

All of shale barrens in West Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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