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Golden Eagle

Aquila chrysaetos

A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in 31 of 75 counties and 2 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
31 of 75 counties
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
31 of 75 counties
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 2

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

1 of 2

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
Other habitats in its models (19)

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 (4)
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
  • 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 this habitat

Plants 202

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 71

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources