Bird
Prairie Warbler
Dendroica discolor
A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 9 habitats.
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 9

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer and on migration
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 9
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Arkansas 9
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.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Other habitats in its models (91)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.
In Arkansas 4
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
Elsewhere in the South (35)
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer and winter.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
Northeast (4)
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
Midwest (6)
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (42)
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer and winter.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer and winter.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 37 of 75 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 69 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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Birds 100
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
- Interior Least TernSternula antillarum athalassos
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Scissor-tailed FlycatcherTyrannus forficatus
- Smith's LongspurCalcarius pictus
Plants 888
- Maximilian SunflowerHelianthus maximiliani
- Muck SunflowerHelianthus simulans
- Annual FleabaneErigeron annuus
- Canada LettuceLactuca canadensis
- Common Evening-primroseOenothera biennis
- Cutleaf Evening-primroseOenothera laciniata
- Dog-fennelEupatorium capillifolium
- Threadleaf SundropsOenothera linifolia
- Carolina Crane's-billGeranium carolinianum
- Bushy KnotweedPolygonum ramosissimum subsp. prolificum
- Blackeyed SusanRudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
- Prostrate KnotweedPolygonum aviculare
Dry forests and woodlands
Birds 36
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
- Red-cockaded WoodpeckerPicoides borealis
- Rufous-crowned SparrowAimophila ruficeps
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
Plants 152
- White ThoroughwortEupatorium album
- McCree's MilkpeaGalactia volubilis
- Narrowleaf SilkgrassPityopsis graminifolia
- Small-headed SilkgrassPityopsis graminifolia var. tenuifolia
- Sessileleaf Tick-trefoilDesmodium sessilifolium
- Leavenworth's SedgeCarex leavenworthii
- Ernests SpiderwortTradescantia ernestiana
- Southern LoosestrifeLysimachia tonsa
- Carolina LilyLilium michauxii
- Doubleform SnoutbeanRhynchosia difformis
- Heller's Rabbit-tobaccoPseudognaphalium helleri
- Tall BellflowerCampanulastrum americanum
Forest edges and thickets
Birds 56
- Spotted TowheePipilo maculatus
- Rufous-crowned SparrowAimophila ruficeps
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- House FinchCarpodacus mexicanus
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Bell's VireoVireo bellii
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
Plants 142
- Earleaf GreenbrierSmilax auriculata
- Fringed NutrushScleria ciliata
- Southern DewberryRubus trivialis
- Buffalo CloverTrifolium reflexum
- Gray DogwoodCornus racemosa
- Cutleaf GoldenrodSolidago arguta
- Hairy LettuceLactuca hirsuta
- Upland BonesetEupatorium sessilifolium
- Eustis Lake BeardtonguePenstemon australis
- Slender LespedezaLespedeza virginica
- Trailing LespedezaLespedeza procumbens
- Creeping LespedezaLespedeza repens
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Prairie Warbler Elevation sea level to 1,220 m. Avoids forest interior
- 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)



























































