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American Tree Sparrow

Spizella arborea

A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in 73 of 75 counties and 8 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
73 of 75 counties
Habitats
8

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
73 of 75 counties
Habitats
8
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 8

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

1 of 8

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; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

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

Freshwater marshes

Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.

WinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

WinterArkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

WinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems

Wet meadows

Open, wet, grassy or sedgy ground that is not a bog.

WinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems
Other habitats in its models (41)

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 Winter.
Elsewhere in the South (13)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Winter.
Midwest (4)
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
Land cover and other classes (21)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 73 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 164

Plant genera in its diet records (9)
  • Carex Seeds. 24 diet records. 144 native plants in Arkansas
  • Eriophorum Seeds. 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Empetrum Seeds. 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Vaccinium Seeds and flowers. 3 diet records. 7 native plants in Arkansas
  • Draba Seeds. 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Amaranthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Arkansas
  • Brassica Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Picea Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Scirpus Seeds. 1 diet record. 6 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 85

Plants 888

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Arkansas

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 45

Plants 142

All of forest edges and thickets in Arkansas

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 102

Plants 17

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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