Bird
Blue-winged Warbler
Vermivora pinus
A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 5 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 5

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 5
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Arkansas 5
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.
Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.
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.
Tree plantations and managed pine
Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.
Other habitats in its models (40)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.
Elsewhere in the South (12)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
Northeast (3)
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer.
Midwest (6)
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
Land cover and other classes (19)
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous 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 - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 68 of 75 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 17 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.
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
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
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
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
Tree plantations and managed pine
Birds 44
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Yellow-throated VireoVireo flavifrons
- House FinchCarpodacus mexicanus
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
Plants 1
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Blue-winged Warbler Elevation up to 983 m
- 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)





















































