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House Finch

Carpodacus mexicanus

Lives in West Virginia all year and nests here. Found in all 55 counties, across 3 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Year-round

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

Forest edges and thickets

Landscape label QS:Lit,"Paesaggio" label QS:Lhu,"Tájkép" label QS:Lca,"Paisatge" label QS:Lde,"Landschaft" label QS:Lpt,"Paisagem" label QS:Lda,"Landskab" label QS:Lsl,"Krajina" label QS:Lja,"風景" label QS:Lsv,"Landskap" label QS:Lpl,"Pejzaż" label QS:Luk,"Пейзаж" label QS:Lnl,"Landschap" label QS:Les,"Paisaje" label QS:Ltr,"Manzara" label QS:Lfi,"Maisema" label QS:Len,"Landscape" label QS:Lfr,"Paysage" label QS:Lmk,"Предел" label QS:Lru,"Пейзаж"
Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationPaul Sawyier, Landscape: young trees and shrubs in autumn colour crowding the rocky edge of a Kentucky woodland. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Kentucky (Paul Sawyier, Landscape; Johnson Collection), a neighboring state.Landscape label QS:Lit,"Paesaggio" label QS:Lhu,"Tájkép" label QS:Lca,"Paisatge" label QS:Lde,"Landschaft" label QS:Lpt,"Paisagem" label QS:Lda,"Landskab" label QS:Lsl,"Krajina" label QS:Lja,"風景" label QS:Lsv,"Landskap" label QS:Lpl,"Pejzaż" label QS:Luk,"Пейзаж" label QS:Lnl,"Landschap" label QS:Les,"Paisaje" label QS:Ltr,"Manzara" label QS:Lfi,"Maisema" label QS:Len,"Landscape" label QS:Lfr,"Paysage" label QS:Lmk,"Предел" label QS:Lru,"Пейзаж", Paul Sawyier, c. 1890-1917. Public domain. Source record.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

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.

Year-roundEvergreen Plantation or Managed Pine
Other habitats in its models (17)

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 (4)
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
Midwest (1)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (12)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 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 221

Plant genera in its diet records (26)
  • Brassica Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Amaranthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Ambrosia Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Amsinckia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Anthemis Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Calandrinia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Carex Seeds. 1 diet record. 161 native plants in West Virginia
  • Centaurea Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Claytonia Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Croton Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Deinandra Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Erodium Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Geranium Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in West Virginia
  • Helianthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 13 native plants in West Virginia
  • Madia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Oxalis Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in West Virginia
  • Polygonum Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in West Virginia
  • Raphanus Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Rumex Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Senecio Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Silene Seeds. 1 diet record. 8 native plants in West Virginia
  • Silybum Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Solanum Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Spergula Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Stellaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in West Virginia
  • Toxicodendron Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 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 89

Plants 905

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in West Virginia

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 52

Plants 204

All of forest edges and thickets in West Virginia

Tree plantations and managed pine

Birds 51

Plants 1

All of tree plantations and managed pine in West Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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