Bird
Willow Flycatcher
Empidonax traillii
A summer resident that nests in West Virginia. Found in all 55 counties, across 4 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 55 counties
- Habitats
- 4
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At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 55 counties
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in West Virginia 4
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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.
Other habitats in its models (6)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in West Virginia.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer, only within 120 m of water.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
Seasons in West Virginia
- Summer: nests here, in all 55 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 443
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in West Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardi
- Tall Blue Wild IndigoBaptisia australis
- River BirchBetula nigra
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Trumpet-creeperCampsis radicans
- Twisted SedgeCarex torta
- American HornbeamCarpinus caroliniana
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Blue MistflowerConoclinium coelestinum
- Deer-tongue WitchgrassDichanthelium clandestinum
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Canada Wild-ryeElymus canadensis
- Wild GeraniumGeranium maculatum
- HarperellaHarperella nodosa
- Spotted JewelweedImpatiens capensis
- American Water-willowJusticia americana
- Canada Wood-nettleLaportea canadensis
- Rice CutgrassLeersia oryzoides
- White CutgrassLeersia virginica
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- TuliptreeLiriodendron tulipifera
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
Wildlife 200
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in West Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Olive-sided FlycatcherContopus cooperi
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Willow Flycatcher Elevation up to 850 m
- 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)













































