Bird
Grasshopper Sparrow
Ammodramus savannarum
Lives in Arkansas all year and nests here. Found in all 75 counties, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 2

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Summer, 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.
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 (29)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer and winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- South Texas Lomas Summer and winter.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- 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.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Year-round: nests here, in 13 of 75 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 8 of 75 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 72 of 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 231
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- SugarberryCeltis laevigata
- Eastern RedbudCercis canadensis
- Longleaf SpikegrassChasmanthium sessiliflorum
- Arkansas CalamintClinopodium arkansanum
- Largeflower TickseedCoreopsis grandiflora
- Flowering DogwoodCornus florida
- Mealy FumewortCorydalis crystallina
- Parsley HawthornCrataegus marshallii
- Littlehip HawthornCrataegus spathulata
- Elliptical RushfoilCroton willdenowii
- Compact Prairie-cloverDalea compacta var. compacta
- Poverty OatgrassDanthonia spicata
- Illinois BundleflowerDesmanthus illinoensis
- Perplexed Tick-trefoilDesmodium perplexum
- Variable WitchgrassDichanthelium commutatum
- Roundseed WitchgrassDichanthelium sphaerocarpon
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Canada Wild-ryeElymus canadensis
- Virginia Wild-ryeElymus virginicus
- Rattlesnake-masterEryngium yuccifolium
- Snow-on-the-prairieEuphorbia bicolor
- Eastern Flowering SpurgeEuphorbia corollata
- Southern Prairie AsterEurybia hemispherica
- Fimbristylis puberula var. puberulaFimbristylis puberula var. puberula
Wildlife 150
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- DickcisselSpiza americana
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
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 Grasshopper Sparrow
- 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)







































