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Lesser Scaup

Aythya affinis

A winter visitor to West Virginia, found in all 55 counties and 3 habitats.

Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
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

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)

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

WinterCumberland Riverscour
Other habitats in its models (49)

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 (32)
  • 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 Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep 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.
  • Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
  • South Florida Cypress Dome 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.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest 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 (15)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems 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 Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough 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.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in 4 of 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 88

Plant genera in its diet records (18)
  • Polygonum Seeds. 5 diet records. 4 native plants in West Virginia
  • Potamogeton Seeds and leaves. 5 diet records. 18 native plants in West Virginia
  • Scirpus Seeds. 4 diet records. 11 native plants in West Virginia
  • Sagittaria Seeds. 3 diet records. 6 native plants in West Virginia
  • Lemna Leaves. 2 diet records. 5 native plants in West Virginia
  • Bolboschoenus Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Ceratophyllum Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Chara Leaves. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Cyperus Seeds. 1 diet record. 16 native plants in West Virginia
  • Dysphania Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Myriophyllum Leaves. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Najas Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Nymphaea Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Persicaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 10 native plants in West Virginia
  • Rumex Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Schoenoplectus Seeds. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in West Virginia
  • Stuckenia Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Zizania Leaves. 1 diet record. 0 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.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 112

Plants 12

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in West Virginia

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 58

Plants 109

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in West Virginia

Streams, rivers and their banks

Birds 88

Plants 232

All of streams, rivers and their banks in West Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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