Alder Flycatcher in Arkansas

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 9

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

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SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Swamp SystemsJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874), a neighboring state.The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. Public domain. Source record.

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

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerSouth-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain; Ozark-Ouachita Riparian

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerUtility Swath - Herbaceous

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

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

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerBeside its main habitat.Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest

Other habitats in its models (35)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

In Arkansas 1

Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, beside its main habitat.

Elsewhere in the South (7)

Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.

Northeast (7)

Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.

Midwest (3)

Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.

Land cover and other classes (17)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
Recently Burned Summer.
Recently Burned Forest Summer.
Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
Recently Logged Areas Summer.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

Migratory: does not nest here, in all 75 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Arkansas, 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.