Bird
Blue-winged Teal
Anas discors
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
- 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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Other habitats in its models (38)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Summer and winter.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida 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 Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer.
- 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 Summer and winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Summer and winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and 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 Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 74 of 75 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 14 of 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 101
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- Marsh SeedboxLudwigia palustris
- Floating SeedboxLudwigia peploides
- Southern WatergrassLuziola fluitans
- Taperleaf BugleweedLycopus rubellus
- MaleberryLyonia ligustrina
- Trailing LoosestrifeLysimachia radicans
- Climbing HempweedMikania scandens
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Water TupeloNyssa aquatica
- Swamp TupeloNyssa biflora
- Royal FernOsmunda spectabilis
- Redtop PanicgrassPanicum rigidulum
- Virginia CreeperParthenocissus quinquefolia
- Green Arrow-arumPeltandra virginica
- Ditch-stonecropPenthorum sedoides
- Dotted SmartweedPersicaria punctata
- Canadian ClearweedPilea pumila
- Planer-treePlanera aquatica
- Camphor PlucheaPluchea camphorata
- Swamp CottonwoodPopulus heterophylla
- Waterthread PondweedPotamogeton diversifolius
- Leafy PondweedPotamogeton foliosus
- Longleaf PondweedPotamogeton nodosus
- Marsh Mermaid-weedProserpinaca palustris
Wildlife 197
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
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 Blue-winged Teal
- 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)














































