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Golden Eagle

Aquila chrysaetos

A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in 31 of 75 counties and 4 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
31 of 75 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
31 of 75 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
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.

1 of 4

Freshwater marshes

Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.

WinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

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

WinterCentral 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.

WinterCentral Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens

Wet meadows

Open, wet, grassy or sedgy ground that is not a bog.

WinterCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems
Other habitats in its models (18)

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

Elsewhere in the South (11)
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Winter.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Winter.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Winter.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Granitic Dome Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Rocky Summit Winter.
  • Southern Interior Acid Cliff Winter.
  • Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Cliff Winter.
Northeast (3)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Winter.
  • North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Winter.
Midwest (1)
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.
Land cover and other classes (3)
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 31 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.

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Birds 12

Plants 29

All of granite and other acidic rock outcrops in Arkansas

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Birds 13

Plants 123

All of glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone in Arkansas

Freshwater marshes

Birds 22

Plants 174

All of freshwater marshes in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources