Bird
Cerulean Warbler
Dendroica cerulea
A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 7 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 7

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- 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.

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.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
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 (35)
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 (15)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
Northeast (7)
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer.
Midwest (5)
- 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.
Land cover and other classes (7)
- 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.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 71 of 75 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 55 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
Dry forests and woodlands
Birds 36
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
- Red-cockaded WoodpeckerPicoides borealis
- Rufous-crowned SparrowAimophila ruficeps
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
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 28
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
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
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Cerulean 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)

























































