Bird
Prairie Warbler
Dendroica discolor
A summer resident that nests in West Virginia. Found in all 55 counties, across 6 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 55 counties
- Habitats
- 6

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 55 counties
- Habitats
- 6
- 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 6
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.
Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
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.
Other habitats in its models (95)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in West Virginia.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer and winter.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Winter.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
- Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
- Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer.
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer and winter.
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in West Virginia
- Summer: nests here, in all 55 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 181
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in West Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Black ChokeberryAronia melanocarpa
- Wavy HairgrassAvenella flexuosa
- Pennsylvania SedgeCarex pensylvanica
- Variable SedgeCarex polymorpha
- Hoary FrostweedCrocanthemum bicknellii
- Poverty OatgrassDanthonia spicata
- GalaxGalax urceolata
- Eastern TeaberryGaultheria procumbens
- Black HuckleberryGaylussacia baccata
- Box HuckleberryGaylussacia brachycera
- Greenland SandwortGeocarpon groenlandicum
- Allegheny StonecropHylotelephium telephioides
- Mountain LaurelKalmia latifolia
- Whorled LoosestrifeLysimachia quadrifolia
- Michaux's SaxifrageMicranthes petiolaris
- Silvery NailwortParonychia argyrocoma
- Table Mountain PinePinus pungens
- Dwarf CinquefoilPotentilla canadensis
- Three-toothed CinquefoilSibbaldiopsis tridentata
- Smilax tamnoidesSmilax tamnoides
- Hillside BlueberryVaccinium pallidum
- Eastern TurkeybeardXerophyllum asphodeloides
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Ageratina altissima var. altissimaAgeratina altissima var. altissima
Wildlife 211
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in West Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Prairie Warbler Elevation 0 to 1,220 m. Avoids forest interior
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)









































