Bird

Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow

Ammodramus nelsoni

Passes through Arkansas on migration. Found in 55 of 75 counties, across 1 habitat.

Here: On migration
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 55 of 75 counties
Habitats: 1

Adult Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) Bill Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 2699364. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: On migration
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: 55 of 75 counties
Habitats: 1
Habitat models: Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 1

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.

Winter

Other habitats in its models (16)

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

Elsewhere in the South (11)

Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.

Northeast (2)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Winter.

Land cover and other classes (3)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Winter.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

Migratory: does not nest here, in 55 of 75 counties.

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.