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Bell's Vireo

Vireo bellii

A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 7 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
7
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 7

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

1 of 7

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.

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; Red River Large Floodplain Forest; 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

Freshwater marshes

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

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerPasture/Hay

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerSouth-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

Wet meadows

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

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems
Other habitats in its models (14)

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

Elsewhere in the South (3)
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Midwest (2)
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
Land cover and other classes (9)
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Summer: nests here, in all 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 10

Plant genera in its diet records (5)
  • Amaranthus 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Arkansas
  • Digitaria 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Fallopia 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sambucus 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Toxicodendron 1 diet record. 2 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 76

Plants 313

All of floodplain and bottomland forests 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.

Sources