Bird
Least Flycatcher
Empidonax minimus
Passes through Arkansas on migration. Found in all 75 counties, across 7 habitats.
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 7

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 7
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Arkansas 7
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Other habitats in its models (63)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Summer.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
- South Florida Cypress Dome Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Winter.
- Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
- South Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Winter.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer, beside its main habitat.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Migratory: does not nest here, in all 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 274
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- White Leaf Leather FlowerClematis glaucophylla
- Blue MistflowerConoclinium coelestinum
- Flowering DogwoodCornus florida
- American HazelnutCorylus americana
- Pear HawthornCrataegus calpodendron
- Fragrant FlatsedgeCyperus odoratus
- Kentucky Ladys SlipperCypripedium kentuckiense
- Poverty OatgrassDanthonia spicata
- Swamp LoosestrifeDecodon verticillatus
- Newton's LarkspurDelphinium newtonianum
- Deer-tongue WitchgrassDichanthelium clandestinum
- Forked Witchgrass; Cypress Panicgrass; Forked Witch Grass; Cypress Panic GrassDichanthelium dichotomum var. dichotomum
- Virginia ButtonweedDiodia virginiana
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Eastern LeatherwoodDirca palustris
- Spinulose Wood-fernDryopteris carthusiana
- Three-way SedgeDulichium arundinaceum
- False DaisyEclipta prostrata
- Sharp Scale Spike Rush; Flat Stem Spike RushEleocharis compressa var. compressa
- Blunt Spike RushEleocharis obtusa
- Canadian WaterweedElodea canadensis
- Canada Wild-ryeElymus canadensis
- Riverbank Wild-ryeElymus riparius
- Virginia Wild-ryeElymus virginicus
Wildlife 229
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
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 Least Flycatcher
- 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)








































