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Least Tern

Sternula antillarum

A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in 29 of 75 counties, across 2 habitats.

Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
29 of 75 counties
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
29 of 75 counties
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Summer

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

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

SummerOpen Water (Fresh)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerOnly within 1,000 m of water.Developed, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed, Non-specific
Other habitats in its models (36)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Summer.
  • Barren Land Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
  • Upper Texas Coast Beach Summer.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Summer.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Summer.
  • Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Summer.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Summer.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Summer.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 16 of 75 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 18 of 75 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Wildlife 194

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