Bird
Purple Martin
Progne subis
A summer resident that nests in West Virginia. Found in 54 of 55 counties, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 54 of 55 counties
- Habitats
- 2
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 54 of 55 counties
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Summer
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
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (30)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in West Virginia.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
- Developed, High Intensity Summer.
- Barren Land Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Summer.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer.
Seasons in West Virginia
- Summer: nests here, in 54 of 55 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 173
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in West Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Purple Martin Elevation 0 to 1,500 m. Fresh water only
- 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)