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Northern Bobwhite

Colinus virginianus

Lives in West Virginia all year and nests here. Found in all 55 counties, across 5 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
5
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 5

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 5

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; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); 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.

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

Year-roundCentral Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland; Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland

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; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Shale barrens

Steep, sun-baked slopes of loose shale with sparse oaks and Virginia pine and their own endemic wildflowers. Linked only where the source names shale barrens; calcareous shale stays with the limestone glades.

Year-round

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-roundBeside its main habitat.Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (90)

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 (49)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Year-round.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Year-round.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Year-round.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
Northeast (3)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Year-round.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Year-round.
Midwest (6)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (32)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • 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 416

Plant genera in its diet records (50)
  • Lespedeza 18 diet records. 9 native plants in West Virginia
  • Croton 15 diet records. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Sorghum 10 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Galactia 9 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Prunus 9 diet records. 10 native plants in West Virginia
  • Glycine 8 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Urochloa 8 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Zea 8 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Chamaecrista 7 diet records. 4 native plants in West Virginia
  • Quercus Seeds. 7 diet records. 20 native plants in West Virginia
  • Vigna 7 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Geranium 6 diet records. 4 native plants in West Virginia
  • Oxalis 6 diet records. 5 native plants in West Virginia
  • Sassafras 6 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Triticum 6 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Ambrosia 5 diet records. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Digitaria 5 diet records. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Setaria 5 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Panicum 4 diet records. 11 native plants in West Virginia
  • Paspalum 4 diet records. 5 native plants in West Virginia
  • Physalis Fruit. 4 diet records. 5 native plants in West Virginia
  • Rhus 4 diet records. 7 native plants in West Virginia
  • Vicia 4 diet records. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Carex 3 diet records. 161 native plants in West Virginia
  • Centrosema 3 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Cyperus 3 diet records. 16 native plants in West Virginia
  • Desmanthus 3 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Diodia 3 diet records. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Krigia 3 diet records. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Liquidambar 3 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Mimosa 3 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Polygonum 3 diet records. 4 native plants in West Virginia
  • Rubus 3 diet records. 17 native plants in West Virginia
  • Sesbania 3 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Zanthoxylum 3 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Argemone 2 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Celtis Fruit. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Commelina 2 diet records. 4 native plants in West Virginia
  • Descurainia 2 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Desmodium 2 diet records. 20 native plants in West Virginia
  • Dichanthelium 2 diet records. 28 native plants in West Virginia
  • Helianthus 2 diet records. 13 native plants in West Virginia
  • Impatiens 2 diet records. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Menodora 2 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Pediomelum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Rhynchosia 2 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Verbena 2 diet records. 5 native plants in West Virginia
  • Viola 2 diet records. 31 native plants in West Virginia
  • Bidens 1 diet record. 10 native plants in West Virginia
  • Strophostyles 1 diet record. 1 native plant 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 96

Plants 905

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in West Virginia

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 63

Plants 204

All of forest edges and thickets in West Virginia

Dry forests and woodlands

Birds 88

Plants 192

All of dry forests and woodlands in West Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources