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House Finch

Carpodacus mexicanus

Lives in Arkansas all year and nests here. Found in 68 of 75 counties, across 4 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
68 of 75 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
68 of 75 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 4

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

1 of 4

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

Year-roundArkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland; West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie; West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

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.

Year-roundEvergreen Plantation or Managed Pine
Other habitats in its models (14)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (2)
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
Midwest (1)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (11)
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Year-round: nests here, in 68 of 75 counties.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 205

Plant genera in its diet records (26)
  • Brassica Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Amaranthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Arkansas
  • Ambrosia Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Amsinckia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Anthemis Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Calandrinia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Carex Seeds. 1 diet record. 144 native plants in Arkansas
  • Centaurea Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Claytonia Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Arkansas
  • Croton Seeds. 1 diet record. 8 native plants in Arkansas
  • Deinandra Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Erodium Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Geranium Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Helianthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 15 native plants in Arkansas
  • Madia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Oxalis Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Polygonum Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Arkansas
  • Raphanus Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Rumex Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Senecio Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Silene Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Arkansas
  • Silybum Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Solanum Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Spergula Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Stellaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Toxicodendron Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Arkansas, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 85

Plants 888

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Arkansas

Prairies and grasslands

Birds 40

Plants 187

All of prairies and grasslands in Arkansas

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 45

Plants 142

All of forest edges and thickets in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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