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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.

1 of 3

Mountain balds

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

SummerWinter

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerWinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerWinterCumberland Riverscour
Other habitats in its models (94)

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 (27)
  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Summer and winter.
  • Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer and winter.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
Northeast (6)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Summer.
Midwest (3)
  • Great Lakes Dune Summer.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer.
West (43)
  • Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer.
  • California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer.
  • Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Summer.
  • Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
  • Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Summer.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer.
  • Columbia Plateau Ash and Tuff Badland Summer.
  • Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Shale Badland Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Alpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Alpine Dry Tundra Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Alpine Fell-Field Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Summer.
  • Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer.
  • North American Warm Desert Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
  • North American Warm Desert Badland Summer.
  • North American Warm Desert Pavement Summer.
  • North American Warm Desert Playa Summer.
  • North American Warm Desert Volcanic Rockland Summer.
  • North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
  • North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Dry Grassland Summer.
  • North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer.
  • North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Summer.
  • North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer.
  • North Pacific Serpentine Barren Summer.
  • Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer.
  • Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
  • Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer.
  • Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer.
  • Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer.
Land cover and other classes (15)
  • Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
  • Barren Land Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub Steppe Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Badland Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • Year-round: nests here, in 24 of 55 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 48 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 96

Plants 905

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in West Virginia

Mountain balds

Birds 34

Plants 65

All of mountain balds in West Virginia

Streams, rivers and their banks

Birds 99

Plants 232

All of streams, rivers and their banks in West Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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