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American Pipit

Anthus rubescens

A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in all 75 counties and 5 habitats.

Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter and on migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 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 Arkansas 5

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

1 of 5

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
WinterMississippi River Bottomland DepressionJoseph 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.

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.

Winter

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

WinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Mississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; Red River Large Floodplain Forest; Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterCultivated Cropland

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

WinterBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Fresh)
Other habitats in its models (37)

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

Elsewhere in the South (23)
  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
Northeast (3)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Land cover and other classes (11)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Winter.
  • Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 49 of 75 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in 51 of 75 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 307

Plant genera in its diet records (42)
  • Ambrosia 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Digitaria 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Euphorbia 2 diet records. 19 native plants in Arkansas
  • Panicum 2 diet records. 12 native plants in Arkansas
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Triticum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Urochloa 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Acalypha 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Arkansas
  • Amaranthus 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Arkansas
  • Athysanus 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Avena 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Brassica 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Calandrinia 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Carex 1 diet record. 144 native plants in Arkansas
  • Centaurea 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Chenopodium 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Croton 1 diet record. 8 native plants in Arkansas
  • Dactyloctenium 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Deinandra 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Diodella 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Empetrum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Erodium 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Helianthus 1 diet record. 15 native plants in Arkansas
  • Hordeum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Liquidambar 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Madia 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Paspalum 1 diet record. 12 native plants in Arkansas
  • Persicaria 1 diet record. 11 native plants in Arkansas
  • Pinus 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Polygonum 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Arkansas
  • Ranunculus 1 diet record. 14 native plants in Arkansas
  • Rumex 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sambucus 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Arkansas
  • Scleranthus 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Stellaria 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Trifolium 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Verbena 1 diet record. 8 native plants in Arkansas
  • Viola 1 diet record. 17 native plants in Arkansas
  • Zanthoxylum 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Zea 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 97

Plants 313

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Arkansas

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 121

Plants 17

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Arkansas

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 100

Plants 888

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources