Bird
Purple Martin
Progne subis
A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 2

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Summer
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 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
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (30)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.
Elsewhere in the South (10)
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- Florida Dry Prairie Summer.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
Northeast (1)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
Midwest (1)
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer.
Land cover and other classes (18)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Summer.
- Barren Land Summer.
- Developed, High Intensity Summer.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
- Recently Burned Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Summer: nests here, in all 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 85
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
- Interior Least TernSternula antillarum athalassos
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Scissor-tailed FlycatcherTyrannus forficatus
- Smith's LongspurCalcarius pictus
- Sprague's PipitAnthus spragueii
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
Ponds, lakes and their shores
Birds 60
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Common MerganserMergus merganser
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
Plants 143
- Mudbank CrowngrassPaspalum dissectum
- Longbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora scirpoides
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Water DawnflowerStylisma aquatica
- Common BladderwortUtricularia macrorhiza
- Horned PondweedZannichellia palustris
- Coastal Plain WillowSalix caroliniana
- Water TupeloNyssa aquatica
- Southern Marsh St. John's-wortTriadenum tubulosum
- Swamp CottonwoodPopulus heterophylla
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
- Grassy ArrowheadSagittaria graminea
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Purple Martin Elevation sea level to 1,500 m. Fresh water only
- 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)








































