Bird
Hairy Woodpecker
Picoides villosus
Lives in Arkansas all year and nests here. Found in all 75 counties, across 11 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 11

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 11
- Habitat models
- Year-round
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Arkansas 11
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Disturbed and introduced wetlands
Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
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.
Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
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.
Other habitats in its models (125)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Developed, Low Intensity Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Year-round.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Year-round.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Year-round.
- Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Year-round.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Year-round.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Year-round.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Year-round.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Year-round.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Year-round.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Year-round.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Year-round.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Year-round.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Year-round.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Year-round.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Year-round.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Year-round.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Year-round.
- Appalachian Shale Barrens Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Year-round.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Year-round.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Year-round.
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Year-round.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Year-round.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Year-round.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Year-round.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Year-round.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Year-round.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Year-round.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Year-round.
- Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Year-round.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Year-round.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Year-round.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Year-round.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Year-round.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Year-round.
- South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Year-round.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Year-round.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Year-round.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.
- Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
- South Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
- Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Year-round: nests here, in all 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 796
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- SparkleberryVaccinium arboreum
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Eastern RedbudCercis canadensis
- Poverty OatgrassDanthonia spicata
- Northern SpicebushLindera benzoin
- Overcup OakQuercus lyrata
- Swamp Chestnut OakQuercus michauxii
- Black WillowSalix nigra
- Canadian Black-snakerootSanicula canadensis
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Winged ElmUlmus alata
- Hillside BlueberryVaccinium pallidum
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardi
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- Common PawpawAsimina triloba
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
- Trumpet-creeperCampsis radicans
- Bitternut HickoryCarya cordiformis
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Flowering DogwoodCornus florida
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
- Possumhaw HollyIlex decidua
- White CutgrassLeersia virginica
Wildlife 221
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP year-round habitat model for Hairy Woodpecker
- 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)















































