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Yellow-throated Vireo

Vireo flavifrons

A summer resident that nests in West Virginia. Found in all 55 counties, across 3 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 55 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in West Virginia 3

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

1 of 3

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.

Summer

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerDeveloped, Open Space

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.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (16)

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 (6)
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
Midwest (6)
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
West (1)
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Land cover and other classes (3)
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in West Virginia

  • Summer: nests 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 16

Plant genera in its diet records (4)
  • Chenopodium 1 diet record. 4 native plants in West Virginia
  • Phytolacca 1 diet record. 2 native plants in West Virginia
  • Sassafras 1 diet record. 1 native plant in West Virginia
  • Vitis 1 diet record. 9 native plants 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.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 120

Plants 12

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in West Virginia

Tree plantations and managed pine

Birds 61

Plants 1

All of tree plantations and managed pine in West Virginia

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 96

Plants 905

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in West Virginia

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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