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Evening Grosbeak

Coccothraustes vespertinus

A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in all 75 counties and 3 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 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

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

WinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

WinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems

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.

WinterDeciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (34)

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

Elsewhere in the South (14)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Winter.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Winter.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
Northeast (6)
  • Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Acadian-Appalachian Montane Spruce-Fir Forest Winter.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Winter.
Midwest (2)
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Winter.
Land cover and other classes (12)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Winter.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 75 counties.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 71

Plant genera in its diet records (16)
  • Acer 2 diet records. 13 native plants in Arkansas
  • Cornus 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Juniperus 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Amelanchier 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Ceanothus 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Fraxinus 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Arkansas
  • Hibiscus 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Malus 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Pinus 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Prunus 1 diet record. 13 native plants in Arkansas
  • Rhus 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Arkansas
  • Rubus 1 diet record. 9 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sambucus 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Solanum 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sorbus 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Symphoricarpos 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.

Tree plantations and managed pine

Birds 32

Plants 1

All of tree plantations and managed pine in Arkansas

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 76

Plants 313

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Arkansas

Streams, rivers and their banks

Birds 50

Plants 199

All of streams, rivers and their banks in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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