Bird
Black-throated Green Warbler
Dendroica virens
A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Summer, 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.
1 of 3
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
Other habitats in its models (45)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.
In Arkansas 1
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
Elsewhere in the South (21)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer.
- South Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Winter.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
Northeast (5)
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer.
Midwest (1)
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
Land cover and other classes (17)
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 61 of 75 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 37 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.
Dry forests and woodlands
Birds 23
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
- Rufous-crowned SparrowAimophila ruficeps
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Red-cockaded WoodpeckerPicoides borealis
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Barred OwlStrix varia
Plants 152
- White ThoroughwortEupatorium album
- McCree's MilkpeaGalactia volubilis
- Narrowleaf SilkgrassPityopsis graminifolia
- Small-headed SilkgrassPityopsis graminifolia var. tenuifolia
- Sessileleaf Tick-trefoilDesmodium sessilifolium
- Leavenworth's SedgeCarex leavenworthii
- Ernests SpiderwortTradescantia ernestiana
- Southern LoosestrifeLysimachia tonsa
- Carolina LilyLilium michauxii
- Doubleform SnoutbeanRhynchosia difformis
- Heller's Rabbit-tobaccoPseudognaphalium helleri
- Tall BellflowerCampanulastrum americanum
Moderately dry forests
Birds 17
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
Plants 12
- Woodland LettuceLactuca floridana
- Rosy SedgeCarex rosea
- Small's Black-snakerootSanicula smallii
- Yellow PimpernelTaenidia integerrima
- Downy ArrowwoodViburnum rafinesquianum
- Woodland BluegrassPoa sylvestris
- Carolina SedgeCarex caroliniana
- Porter's ReedgrassCalamagrostis porteri
- Rusty BlackhawViburnum rufidulum
- Common GreenbrierSmilax rotundifolia
- Broadleaf HelleborineEpipactis helleborine
- Mullein FoxgloveDasistoma macrophyllum
Moist forests
Birds 16
- Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
Plants 227
- Smooth Blue AsterSymphyotrichum laeve
- White AshFraxinus americana
- Fewflower Tick-trefoilDesmodium pauciflorum
- Vitis cinereaVitis cinerea
- Bigleaf MagnoliaMagnolia macrophylla
- Pointedleaf Tick-trefoilDesmodium glutinosum
- Smooth Carrion-flowerSmilax herbacea
- Umbrella MagnoliaMagnolia tripetala
- Narrowleaf RampsAllium tricoccum var. burdickii
- Rich-woods SedgeCarex oligocarpa
- Carey's SedgeCarex careyana
- Krals SedgeCarex kraliana
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Black-throated Green Warbler
- 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)


















































