Bird

Pied-billed Grebe

Podilymbus podiceps

Lives in West Virginia all year and nests here. Found in all 55 counties, across 2 habitats.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 55 counties
Habitats: 2

Male Pied-billed Grebe, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Victor Engel, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 436785710. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 55 counties
Habitats: 2
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 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.

SummerWinter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

SummerWinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Other habitats in its models (45)

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 (15)

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 Large Natural Lakeshore Summer and winter.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer and winter.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.

Northeast (4)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer and winter.
Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.

Midwest (3)

Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer and winter.

West (11)

Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer and winter.
Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer and winter.
Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer and winter.
North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
North American Warm Desert Playa Summer and winter.
North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer and winter.
Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer and winter.

Land cover and other classes (12)

Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter.
Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer and winter.
Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Summer and winter.
Mediterranean California Eelgrass Bed Summer and winter.
North Pacific Maritime Eelgrass Bed Summer and winter.
Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

Year-round: nests here, in 24 of 55 counties.
Winter: does not nest here, in 47 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.