Bird
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauri
Passes through West Virginia on migration. Found in all 55 counties, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 55 counties
- Habitats
- 2
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At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 55 counties
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Winter
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.
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.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Other habitats in its models (24)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in West Virginia.
- Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
- Louisiana Beach Winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
Seasons in West Virginia
- Migratory: does not nest here, in all 55 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 159
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in West Virginia. Not sighting records.
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Western Sandpiper
- 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)

























