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Eastern Bluebird

Sialia sialis

Lives in Arkansas all year and nests here. Found in all 75 counties, across 11 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
11

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
11
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Arkansas 11

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 11

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

SummerWinterOzark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland; Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland; Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

WinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest; West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerWinterHarvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Forests and woodlands

Forest or woodland where the source does not say how moist or dry.

WinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.

SummerWinterCentral Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.

SummerWinterCentral Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens

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.

SummerWinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods; Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods; West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

WinterOzark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest; Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

WinterSouthern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest; West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest; Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest

Prairies and grasslands

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

SummerWinterArkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland; 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.

SummerWinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (170)

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

In Arkansas 6

  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer and winter.
  • Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Winter.
  • Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
Elsewhere in the South (56)
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Winter.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Edwards Plateau Mesic Canyon Winter.
  • Edwards Plateau Riparian Summer and winter.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Llano Uplift Acidic Forest, Woodland and Glade Summer and winter.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer and winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Lowland Summer and winter.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Pine Rockland Summer and winter.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Winter.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Winter.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Tamaulipan Floodplain Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter.
Northeast (13)
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Boreal Floodplain Winter.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Winter.
  • North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer and winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Barrens Summer and winter.
Midwest (22)
  • Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Winter.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Summer and winter.
  • Great Lakes Alvar Summer and winter.
  • Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer and winter.
  • Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter.
West (28)
  • Apacherian-Chihuahuan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Madrean Encinal Summer and winter.
  • Madrean Juniper Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Madrean Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Madrean Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Madrean Upper Montane Conifer-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Mogollon Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Foothill Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Cliff and Outcrop Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (45)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer and winter.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Chained Pinyon-Juniper Areas Summer and winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 75 counties.

Fruit and seed plants

Plants in genera this bird was recorded eating, from diet studies across North America. Not a record of what it eats in your state.

29 native plants in Arkansas. 2 not suggested for gardens

Native here, not suggested for gardens

Matched by plant genus. Avian Diet Database

Also on these plants

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All fruit and seed records in Arkansas

All wildlife of Arkansas

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.

Eastern Bluebird uses many habitats in Arkansas; these are its 3 most characteristic.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 86

Plants 888

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Arkansas

Dry forests and woodlands

Birds 24

Plants 152

All of dry forests and woodlands in Arkansas

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Birds 33

Plants 15

All of hardwood and oak flatwoods in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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