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White-winged Crossbill

Loxia leucoptera

A winter visitor to West Virginia, found in all 55 counties and 5 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Winter

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

Dry forests and woodlands

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

WinterCentral Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest; Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland; Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland

Hemlock forests

Shady, evergreen forests of eastern or Carolina hemlock, often along rocky mountain streams and in gorges.

WinterAppalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest

Shale barrens

Steep, sun-baked slopes of loose shale with sparse oaks and Virginia pine and their own endemic wildflowers. Linked only where the source names shale barrens; calcareous shale stays with the limestone glades.

Winter

Spruce-fir forests

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

Winter

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 (28)

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 Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Winter.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Winter.
  • Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Winter.
Land cover and other classes (10)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • 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 27

Plant genera in its diet records (9)
  • Abies 1 diet record. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Alopecurus 1 diet record. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Ambrosia 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Empetrum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in West Virginia
  • Gaylussacia 1 diet record. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Helianthus 1 diet record. 13 native plants in West Virginia
  • Juniperus 1 diet record. 3 native plants in West Virginia
  • Picea 1 diet record. 1 native plant 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

Tree plantations and managed pine

Birds 61

Plants 1

All of tree plantations and managed pine in West Virginia

Hemlock forests

Birds 61

All of hemlock forests in West Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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