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Orchard Oriole

Icterus spurius

A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 12 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
12

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
12
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 12

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

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Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Standing water, Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens SNA, Rutherford County
SummerCentral Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and BarrensStanding water on a limestone glade. Shown: Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens State Natural Area, Rutherford County, Tennessee, a neighboring state.Standing water, Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens SNA, Rutherford County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

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.

Summer

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

SummerOzark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland; Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerSouth-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Mississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.

SummerCentral Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

SummerWest Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods

Prairies and grasslands

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

SummerArkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland; Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

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

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

Swamps

Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

SummerLower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier

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.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (77)

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

  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer.
  • South Florida Cypress Dome Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer.
  • South Florida Pine Flatwoods Summer.
  • Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Summer: nests here, in all 75 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 604

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 232

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