Bird
Killdeer
Charadrius vociferus
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
- Summer, Winter
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.
Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
Other habitats in its models (94)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in West Virginia.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer and winter.
- Barren Land Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Summer.
- Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter.
- Great Lakes Dune Summer.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer and winter.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
- Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer.
- Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Summer.
- North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Summer.
- Western Great Plains Badland Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Badland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Shale Badland Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Ash and Tuff Badland Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer.
- North Pacific Serpentine Barren Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Playa Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
- North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Pavement Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Volcanic Rockland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Fell-Field Summer.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer.
- Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub Steppe Summer.
- Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Dry Tundra Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer.
- North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Dry Grassland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Summer.
- North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
- Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
- Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer.
- Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Summer.
- California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer.
- North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Summer.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
- Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
Seasons in West Virginia
- Year-round: nests here, in 24 of 55 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 48 of 55 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 175
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in West Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Moss PhloxPhlox subulata
- Northern BentgrassAgrostis mertensii
- Upland BentgrassAgrostis perennans
- Allegheny OnionAllium allegheniense
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardi
- Filmy AngelicaAngelica triquinata
- Black ChokeberryAronia melanocarpa
- Wavy HairgrassAvenella flexuosa
- Tall Blue Wild IndigoBaptisia australis
- River BirchBetula nigra
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Narrow Triangle MoonwortBotrychium lanceolatum var. angustisegmentum
- Leathery GrapefernBotrychium multifidum
- Allegheny BrookfoamBoykinia aconitifolia
- Fringed BromeBromus ciliatus
- Bluejoint ReedgrassCalamagrostis canadensis
- Trumpet-creeperCampsis radicans
- Appalachian SedgeCarex appalachica
- Brownish SedgeCarex brunnescens
- Crested SedgeCarex cristatella
- White-edge SedgeCarex debilis
- Flexuous White-edge SedgeCarex debilis var. rudgei
- Greater Straw SedgeCarex normalis
Wildlife 184
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in West Virginia. Not sighting records.
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Killdeer
- 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)







































