Bird
Bewick's Wren
Thryomanes bewickii
Lives in Arkansas all year and nests here. Found in 41 of 75 counties, across 8 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 41 of 75 counties
- Habitats
- 8

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 41 of 75 counties
- Habitats
- 8
- Habitat models
- Summer, 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.
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.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.
Granite and other acidic rock outcrops
Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.
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 (35)
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 Summer and winter.
Elsewhere in the South (17)
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer and winter.
- Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer and winter.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer and winter.
Northeast (1)
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter.
Midwest (3)
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (13)
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer and winter.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Year-round: nests here, in 36 of 75 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 14 of 75 counties.
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
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Neotropic CormorantPhalacrocorax brasilianus
- Northern ParulaParula americana
Plants 313
- Elliott's BlueberryVaccinium elliottii
- Possumhaw HollyIlex decidua
- Cherrybark OakQuercus pagoda
- Swamp Chestnut OakQuercus michauxii
- Canada VioletViola canadensis
- Appalachian Orange ConeflowerRudbeckia fulgida var. umbrosa
- Shagbark HickoryCarya ovata
- Camphor PlucheaPluchea camphorata
- PondberryLindera melissifolia
- Smooth Hedge-nettleStachys tenuifolia
- Wolf's BluegrassPoa wolfii
- Spreading SedgeCarex laxiculmis
Forest edges and thickets
Birds 56
- Spotted TowheePipilo maculatus
- Rufous-crowned SparrowAimophila ruficeps
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- House FinchCarpodacus mexicanus
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Bell's VireoVireo bellii
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
Plants 142
- Earleaf GreenbrierSmilax auriculata
- Fringed NutrushScleria ciliata
- Southern DewberryRubus trivialis
- Buffalo CloverTrifolium reflexum
- Gray DogwoodCornus racemosa
- Cutleaf GoldenrodSolidago arguta
- Hairy LettuceLactuca hirsuta
- Upland BonesetEupatorium sessilifolium
- Eustis Lake BeardtonguePenstemon australis
- Slender LespedezaLespedeza virginica
- Trailing LespedezaLespedeza procumbens
- Creeping LespedezaLespedeza repens
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Birds 100
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
- Interior Least TernSternula antillarum athalassos
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Scissor-tailed FlycatcherTyrannus forficatus
- Smith's LongspurCalcarius pictus
Plants 888
- Maximilian SunflowerHelianthus maximiliani
- Muck SunflowerHelianthus simulans
- Annual FleabaneErigeron annuus
- Canada LettuceLactuca canadensis
- Common Evening-primroseOenothera biennis
- Cutleaf Evening-primroseOenothera laciniata
- Dog-fennelEupatorium capillifolium
- Threadleaf SundropsOenothera linifolia
- Carolina Crane's-billGeranium carolinianum
- Bushy KnotweedPolygonum ramosissimum subsp. prolificum
- Blackeyed SusanRudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
- Prostrate KnotweedPolygonum aviculare
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Bewick's Wren
- 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)































































