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Red Crossbill

Loxia curvirostra

Lives in West Virginia all year and nests here. Found in all 55 counties, across 4 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
4
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 4

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

1 of 4

Dry forests and woodlands

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

SummerWinterCentral Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest; Central 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.

WinterDeveloped, Open Space

Spruce-fir forests

Cool, evergreen forests of red spruce and Fraser fir on the highest mountains.

SummerWinter

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.

WinterEvergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (9)

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 (1)
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (8)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • Year-round: nests here, in 8 of 55 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest 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 22

Plant genera in its diet records (6)
  • Pinus 6 diet records. 6 native plants in West Virginia
  • Picea 2 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Ambrosia 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Larix 1 diet record. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 11 native plants in West Virginia
  • Tsuga 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.

Dry forests and woodlands

Birds 88

Plants 192

All of dry forests and woodlands in West Virginia

Spruce-fir forests

Birds 31

Plants 19

All of spruce-fir forests in West Virginia

Tree plantations and managed pine

Birds 61

Plants 1

All of tree plantations and managed pine in West Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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