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.

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

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.
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.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest 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.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
- Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
- South Florida Hardwood Hammock Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
- Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer and winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Winter.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Winter.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Summer.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly 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.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and 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.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
- 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.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub 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.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- South Florida Mangrove Swamp Summer and winter.
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Winter.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 37 of 75 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 69 of 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 445
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- Little BluestemSchizachyrium scoparium
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- White OakQuercus alba
- Blackjack OakQuercus marilandica
- Juniperus virginiana var. virginianaJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana
- Yellow IndiangrassSorghastrum nutans
- Hillside BlueberryVaccinium pallidum
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardi
- Black HickoryCarya texana
- Southern Red OakQuercus falcata
- Black OakQuercus velutina
- SparkleberryVaccinium arboreum
- Poverty OatgrassDanthonia spicata
- Pale Purple ConeflowerEchinacea pallida
- Eastern Red CedarJuniperus virginiana
- Shortleaf PinePinus echinata
- Fragrant SumacRhus aromatica
- Sideoats GramaBouteloua curtipendula
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- White AshFraxinus americana
- White Bee BalmMonarda russeliana
- American Hop-hornbeamOstrya virginiana
- Wiry PanicgrassPanicum flexile
Wildlife 229
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
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 Prairie Warbler Elevation 0 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)













































