WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Colinus virginianus | Northern Bobwhite 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The northern bobwhite's range extends from southern Maine and Ontario
south to Florida and west to the eastern fringes of Wyoming, Colorado,
and New Mexico.  Isolated populations inhabit eastern Washington,
western Idaho, and northwestern Oregon [2,7].  Populations of northern
bobwhite have been introduced to parts of Hawaii and southern British
Columbia [12].  Ranges of individual subspecies are listed below [7].

C. v. ssp. marilandicus - from southwestern Maine through central
                          Virginia
C. v. ssp. mexicanus - eastern United States from the Atlantic Seaboard
                       to the Midwest
C. v. ssp. virginianus - from Virginia south to northern Florida and
                         southeast Alabama
C. v. ssp. floridanus - south peninsular Florida
C. v. ssp. taylori - from South Dakota to northern Texas and east to
                     western Missouri and northwestern Arkansas
C. v. ssp. texanus - southwestern Texas south into Mexico
C. v. ssp. ridgwayi - extreme south-central Arizona into Mexico


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES16 Oak-gum-cypress
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES31 Shinnery
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES41 Wet grasslands


STATES : 


    
AL
    
AK
	
AZ
    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
FL
    
GA


    
HI
    
ID
    
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
KS
    
KY
    
LA
    
ME
    
MD


    
MA
    
MI
    
MN
    
MS
    
MO
    
MT
    
NE
    
NH
    
NJ


    
NM
    
NY
    
NC
    
ND
    
OH
    
OK
    
OR
    
PA
    
RI
    
SC


    
SD
    
TN
    
TX
    
UT
    
VT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI
    
WY






    
BC
    
ON
  





    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K026  Oregon oakwoods
   K027  Mesquite bosque
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K039  Blackbrush
   K043  Paloverde - cactus shrub
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K061  Mesquite - acacia savanna
   K062  Mesquite - live oak savanna
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K071  Shinnery
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K079  Palmetto prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K083  Cedar glades
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K085  Mesquite - buffalograss
   K086  Juniper - oak savanna
   K087  Mesquite - oak savanna
   K088  Fayette prairie
   K089  Black Belt
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin
   K115  Sand pine scrub
   K116  Subtropical pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    15  Red pine
    21  Eastern white pine
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    43  Bear oak
    57  Yellow-poplar
    63  Cottonwood
    64  Sassafras - persimmon
    65  Pin oak - sweet gum
    67  Mohrs ("shin") oak
    68  Mesquite
    69  Sand pine
    70  Longleaf pine
    71  Longleaf pine - scrub oak
    72  Southern scrub oak
    74  Cabbage palmetto
    75  Shortleaf pine
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    79  Virginia pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    84  Slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood
    87  Sweet gum - yellow poplar
    89  Live oak
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
    97  Atlantic white-cedar
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
   109  Hawthorn
   111  South Florida slash pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Northern bobwhite primarily inhabit hardwood forests of the eastern
United States and pine (Pinus spp.) forests of the South.  They also
inhabit grasslands, and in the Southwest, shrubby savannahs [2,16].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Colinus virginianus | Northern Bobwhite