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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.

1 of 3

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.

Summer

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

SummerSoutheastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie; West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie; West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (21)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

In Arkansas 1

  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
Elsewhere in the South (4)
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer.
Midwest (1)
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
Land cover and other classes (15)
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Summer: nests here, in all 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 100

Plants 888

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Arkansas

Prairies and grasslands

Birds 48

Plants 187

All of prairies and grasslands in Arkansas

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 121

Plants 17

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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