Bird
Ring-necked Pheasant
Phasianus colchicus
Lives in West Virginia all year and nests here. Found in 19 of 55 counties, across 5 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 19 of 55 counties
- Habitats
- 5
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 19 of 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
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
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.
Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.
Open, wet, grassy or sedgy ground that is not a bog.
Other habitats in its models (33)
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 (16)
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie 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 Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
Northeast (1)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (4)
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (12)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Year-round.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Seasons in West Virginia
- Year-round: nests here, in 19 of 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 13
- Little BarleyHordeum pusillum
- Shale Barren Wild BuckwheatEriogonum allenii
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- Carey's KnotweedPersicaria careyi
- Pale SmartweedPersicaria lapathifolia
- Swamp SmartweedPersicaria hydropiperoides
- Arrowleaf TearthumbPersicaria sagittata
- Bog SmartweedPersicaria setacea
- Dotted SmartweedPersicaria punctata
- Halberd-leaf TearthumbPersicaria arifolia
- JumpseedPersicaria virginiana
- Pennsylvania SmartweedPersicaria pensylvanica
- Water SmartweedPersicaria amphibia
Plant genera in its diet records (9)
- Zea Seeds. 13 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
- Avena 12 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
- Triticum 11 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
- Hordeum 7 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
- Eriogonum 3 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
- Arundinaria 2 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
- Glycine Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
- Secale 2 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
- Persicaria 1 diet record. 10 native plants in West Virginia
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 89
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Upland SandpiperBartramia longicauda
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- DickcisselSpiza americana
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Hoary RedpollCarduelis hornemanni
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- American WigeonAnas americana
Plants 905
- Pussy WillowSalix discolor
- Crooked-stem AsterSymphyotrichum prenanthoides
- Long Stalk AsterSymphyotrichum dumosum var. dumosum
- Canada LettuceLactuca canadensis
- Annual FleabaneErigeron annuus
- Bushy KnotweedPolygonum ramosissimum subsp. prolificum
- Carey's KnotweedPersicaria careyi
- Carolina Crane's-billGeranium carolinianum
- Common Evening-primroseOenothera biennis
- Cutleaf Evening-primroseOenothera laciniata
- Northern Evening-primroseOenothera parviflora
- Oakes Evening PrimroseOenothera oakesiana
All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in West Virginia
Disturbed and introduced wetlands
Birds 112
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- DickcisselSpiza americana
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
Plants 12
- Slender FimbryFimbristylis autumnalis
- Blue MistflowerConoclinium coelestinum
- False DaisyEclipta prostrata
- Intermediate Spike RushEleocharis intermedia
- Blunt Spike RushEleocharis obtusa
- Bristly SedgeCarex comosa
- Sensitive FernOnoclea sensibilis
- Heart Leaf WillowSalix eriocephala
- Cuscuta gronovii var. gronoviiCuscuta gronovii var. gronovii
- European Gray WillowSalix cinerea
- Ricefield FlatsedgeCyperus iria
- White WillowSalix alba
Forest edges and thickets
Birds 52
- Hoary RedpollCarduelis hornemanni
- House FinchCarpodacus mexicanus
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
Plants 204
- Bristly BlackberryRubus setosus
- Rubus invisusRubus invisus
- Tall LarkspurDelphinium exaltatum
- Northeastern BindweedCalystegia sepium subsp. americana
- Canada PlumPrunus nigra
- ChokecherryPrunus virginiana var. virginiana
- Fire CherryPrunus pensylvanica
- Silky DogwoodCornus obliqua
- Giant SunflowerHelianthus giganteus
- Gray DogwoodCornus racemosa
- Buffalo CloverTrifolium reflexum
- Cutleaf GoldenrodSolidago arguta
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP year-round habitat model for Ring-necked Pheasant Elevation up to 3,353 m
- 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)
- Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab) (CC0 1.0), diet records by plant genus