Bird
American Wigeon
Anas americana
A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in all 75 counties and 3 habitats.
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Arkansas 3
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.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (30)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 10 of 75 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 74 of 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 220
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bell's VireoVireo bellii
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
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 Wigeon
- 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)

























