Bird
Hoary Redpoll
Carduelis hornemanni
A winter visitor to West Virginia, found in 42 of 55 counties and 2 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 42 of 55 counties
- Habitats
- 2
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 42 of 55 counties
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in West Virginia 2
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
1 of 2
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (28)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in West Virginia. Those recorded in West Virginia first, the rest by region.
Northeast (1)
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Winter.
Midwest (12)
- Great Lakes Alvar Winter.
- Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Winter.
- Laurentian Pine-Oak Barrens Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains Shrubland Winter.
Land cover and other classes (15)
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Winter.
- Recently Burned Winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter.
Seasons in West Virginia
- Winter: does not nest here, in 42 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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Birds 89
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Upland SandpiperBartramia longicauda
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- DickcisselSpiza americana
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- American WigeonAnas americana
- BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
Plants 905
- Pussy WillowSalix discolor
- Crooked-stem AsterSymphyotrichum prenanthoides
- Long Stalk AsterSymphyotrichum dumosum var. dumosum
- Canada LettuceLactuca canadensis
- Annual FleabaneErigeron annuus
- Bushy KnotweedPolygonum ramosissimum subsp. prolificum
- Carey's KnotweedPersicaria careyi
- Carolina Crane's-billGeranium carolinianum
- Common Evening-primroseOenothera biennis
- Cutleaf Evening-primroseOenothera laciniata
- Northern Evening-primroseOenothera parviflora
- Oakes Evening PrimroseOenothera oakesiana
All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in West Virginia
Forest edges and thickets
Birds 52
- House FinchCarpodacus mexicanus
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
Plants 204
- Bristly BlackberryRubus setosus
- Rubus invisusRubus invisus
- Tall LarkspurDelphinium exaltatum
- Northeastern BindweedCalystegia sepium subsp. americana
- Canada PlumPrunus nigra
- ChokecherryPrunus virginiana var. virginiana
- Fire CherryPrunus pensylvanica
- Silky DogwoodCornus obliqua
- Giant SunflowerHelianthus giganteus
- Gray DogwoodCornus racemosa
- Buffalo CloverTrifolium reflexum
- Cutleaf GoldenrodSolidago arguta
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Hoary Redpoll
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)