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Eared Grebe

Podiceps nigricollis

Passes through Arkansas on migration. Found in 60 of 75 counties, across 3 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
60 of 75 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
60 of 75 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
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.

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.

Winter

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

WinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)
Other habitats in its models (10)

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

Elsewhere in the South (4)
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Louisiana Beach Winter.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
Land cover and other classes (6)
  • Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 60 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.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 121

Plants 17

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Arkansas

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Birds 45

Plants 15

All of hardwood and oak flatwoods in Arkansas

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 66

Plants 143

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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