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Golden-winged Warbler

Vermivora chrysoptera

Passes through Arkansas on migration. Found in all 75 counties, across 5 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 5

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

1 of 5

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

SummerSouth-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerSouth-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

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.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (48)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.

  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

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

Also found in this habitat

Plants 274

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

Wildlife 215

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