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Upland Sandpiper

Bartramia longicauda

A summer resident that nests in West Virginia. Found in all 55 counties, across 1 habitat.

Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
1

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
1
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in West Virginia 1

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

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (12)

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)
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
Midwest (3)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer.
Land cover and other classes (8)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 53 of 55 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 9 of 55 counties.

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

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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