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Rock Pigeon

Columba livia

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

At a glance

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

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

1 of 2

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus; Southern Interior Acid Cliff
Other habitats in its models (13)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in West Virginia. Those recorded in West Virginia first, the rest by region.

In West Virginia 1

  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Elsewhere in the South (3)
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (2)
  • Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (7)
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • Year-round: nests 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 50

Plant genera in its diet records (15)
  • Avena 2 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Hordeum 2 diet records. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Prunus 2 diet records. 10 native plants in West Virginia
  • Triticum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Zea 2 diet records. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Amaranthus 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Digitaria 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Phytolacca 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Polygonum 1 diet record. 4 native plants in West Virginia
  • Quercus 1 diet record. 20 native plants in West Virginia
  • Robinia 1 diet record. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Sorghum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Toxicodendron 1 diet record. 5 native plants in West Virginia
  • Ulmus 1 diet record. 3 native plants 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 89

Plants 905

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in West Virginia

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Birds 11

Plants 36

All of granite and other acidic rock outcrops in West Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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