Bird
Killdeer
Charadrius vociferus
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 (94)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer and winter.
- Barren Land Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Summer and winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
- North American Warm Desert Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandy Beach Summer.
- Louisiana Beach Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Summer and winter.
- Great Lakes Dune Summer.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer and winter.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Active and Stabilized Dune Summer.
- Mediterranean California Southern Coastal Dune Summer.
- Mediterranean California Northern Coastal Dune Summer.
- North Pacific Maritime Coastal Sand Dune and Strand Summer.
- Western Great Plains Badland Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Badland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Shale Badland Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Ash and Tuff Badland Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer.
- North Pacific Serpentine Barren Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Playa Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
- North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Bedrock and Scree Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Pavement Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Volcanic Rockland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Fell-Field Summer.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer.
- Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub Steppe Summer.
- Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Alpine Dry Tundra Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer.
- North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Dry Grassland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine Meadow Summer.
- North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
- Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
- Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
- Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer.
- Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Summer.
- California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Summer and winter.
- North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer.
- North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Summer and winter.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
- Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
- Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Summer.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
- Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer and winter.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Year-round: nests here, in all 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 155
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Fragrant SumacRhus aromatica
- Little BluestemSchizachyrium scoparium
- Skinners False FoxgloveAgalinis skinneriana
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- Sideoats GramaBouteloua curtipendula
- Wild HyacinthCamassia scilloides
- Whitetinge SedgeCarex albicans
- Cherokee SedgeCarex cherokeensis
- Little Tooth SedgeCarex microdonta
- Nutmeg HickoryCarya myristiciformis
- Rough Leaf DogwoodCornus drummondii
- Cockspur HawthornCrataegus crus-galli
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis
- Pale Purple ConeflowerEchinacea pallida
- Eastern Purple ConeflowerEchinacea purpurea
- Possumhaw HollyIlex decidua
- Eastern Red CedarJuniperus virginiana
- Juniperus virginiana var. virginianaJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana
- Prairie CelestialNemastylis geminiflora
- Wiry PanicgrassPanicum flexile
- Chinquapin OakQuercus muehlenbergii
- Cherrybark OakQuercus pagoda
- Shumard OakQuercus shumardii
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 Killdeer
- 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)










































