Bird
Dickcissel
Spiza americana
A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Summer
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.
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.
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (21)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Summer: nests here, in all 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 231
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- Little BluestemSchizachyrium scoparium
- Sideoats GramaBouteloua curtipendula
- Pale Purple ConeflowerEchinacea pallida
- Juniperus virginiana var. virginianaJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Fragrant SumacRhus aromatica
- Compass PlantSilphium laciniatum
- Yellow IndiangrassSorghastrum nutans
- Skinners False FoxgloveAgalinis skinneriana
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardi
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- Splitbeard BluestemAndropogon ternarius
- Wild HyacinthCamassia scilloides
- Whitetinge SedgeCarex albicans
- Cherokee SedgeCarex cherokeensis
- Little Tooth SedgeCarex microdonta
- Nutmeg HickoryCarya myristiciformis
- Rough Leaf DogwoodCornus drummondii
- Cockspur HawthornCrataegus crus-galli
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis
- Eastern Purple ConeflowerEchinacea purpurea
- Possumhaw HollyIlex decidua
- Eastern Red CedarJuniperus virginiana
Wildlife 212
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Dickcissel
- 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)










































