Bird

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

Male White-winged Crossbill, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Derek Spencer, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0. iNaturalist photo 433288996. Source-provided large resize; no crop or image edits.

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.