Bird
Field Sparrow
Spizella pusilla
Lives in Arkansas all year and nests here. Found in all 75 counties, across 4 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Arkansas 4
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 (43)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
- 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.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Winter.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
- Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration 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.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub 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.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
- The model distinguishes abandoned fields from actively planted row crops.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Year-round: nests here, in all 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 155
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- Shagbark HickoryCarya ovata
- SugarberryCeltis laevigata
- Eastern RedbudCercis canadensis
- Longleaf SpikegrassChasmanthium sessiliflorum
- Arkansas CalamintClinopodium arkansanum
- Flowering DogwoodCornus florida
- Parsley HawthornCrataegus marshallii
- Littlehip HawthornCrataegus spathulata
- Compact Prairie-cloverDalea compacta var. compacta
- Illinois BundleflowerDesmanthus illinoensis
- Perplexed Tick-trefoilDesmodium perplexum
- Variable WitchgrassDichanthelium commutatum
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Snow-on-the-prairieEuphorbia bicolor
- Eastern Flowering SpurgeEuphorbia corollata
- Fimbristylis puberula var. puberulaFimbristylis puberula var. puberula
- Upland Swamp PrivetForestiera ligustrina
- Carolina BuckthornFrangula caroliniana
- White AshFraxinus americana
- Ozark BedstrawGalium virgatum
- White AvensGeum canadense
- Honey LocustGleditsia triacanthos
- Narrowleaf GumweedGrindelia lanceolata
- Common SneezeweedHelenium autumnale
Wildlife 218
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- 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
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Harris's SparrowZonotrichia querula
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Field Sparrow Avoids forest interior
- 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)







































