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Greater Roadrunner

Geococcyx californianus

Lives in Arkansas all year and nests here. Found in 71 of 75 counties, across 2 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
71 of 75 counties
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
71 of 75 counties
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Year-round

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

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

Year-roundOzark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland; Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundCultivated Cropland
Other habitats in its models (6)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Year-round.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Year-round.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Year-round: nests here, in 71 of 75 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 33

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

Wildlife 180

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