Bird

Least Sandpiper

Calidris minutilla

Passes through West Virginia on migration. Found in all 55 counties, across 2 habitats.

Here: On migration
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: All 55 counties
Habitats: 2

Adult Least Sandpiper, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) Ken Clark, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 378807780. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: On migration
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: All 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

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Winter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Other habitats in its models (55)

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 (35)

Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Winter, only within 60 m of water.
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter.
Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter, only within 60 m of water.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.

Northeast (2)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.

Land cover and other classes (18)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems Winter.
Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Winter.
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Winter.
Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Winter.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

Migratory: does not nest here, in all 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.