Bird
American Tree Sparrow
Spizella arborea
A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in 73 of 75 counties and 6 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 73 of 75 counties
- Habitats
- 6

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 73 of 75 counties
- Habitats
- 6
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Arkansas 6
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.
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
Other habitats in its models (42)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Winter.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
- Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Winter.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter.
- Recently Burned Winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Winter: does not nest here, in 73 of 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 46
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- Downy ServiceberryAmelanchier arborea
- Plantain-leaf PussytoesAntennaria plantaginifolia
- Sideoats GramaBouteloua curtipendula
- Bitternut HickoryCarya cordiformis
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- Black HickoryCarya texana
- SugarberryCeltis laevigata
- Eastern RedbudCercis canadensis
- American Smoke TreeCotinus obovatus
- Washington HawthornCrataegus phaenopyrum
- Poverty OatgrassDanthonia spicata
- Variable WitchgrassDichanthelium commutatum
- Open-flower WitchgrassDichanthelium laxiflorum
- Honey LocustGleditsia triacanthos
- Woodland SunflowerHelianthus divaricatus
- Beaked HawkweedHieracium gronovii
- Ashe's JuniperJuniperus ashei
- Eastern Red CedarJuniperus virginiana
- Juniperus virginiana var. virginianaJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana
- Narrowleaf PinweedLechea tenuifolia
- Hairy LespedezaLespedeza hirta
- Texas NeedlegrassNassella leucotricha
- American Hop-hornbeamOstrya virginiana
- Virginia CreeperParthenocissus quinquefolia
Wildlife 228
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Harris's SparrowZonotrichia querula
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for American Tree Sparrow
- 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)










































