Bird
Redhead
Aythya americana
A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in all 75 counties and 2 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 2

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Winter
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.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Other habitats in its models (22)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 53
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Drummonds Red MapleAcer rubrum var. drummondii
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- Red ChokeberryAronia arbutifolia
- Athyrium filix-feminaAthyrium filix-femina
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Northern BluethreadBurmannia biflora
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Slender SpikegrassChasmanthium laxum
- Climbing HydrangeaDecumaria barbara
- Velvet WitchgrassDichanthelium scoparium
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Pink SundewDrosera capillaris
- Carolina Elephant's-footElephantopus carolinianus
- Eriocaulon koernickianumEriocaulon koernickianum
- Roundleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium rotundifolium
- American BeechFagus grandifolia
- American HollyIlex opaca
- Virginia SweetspireItea virginica
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- Netted Chain-fernLorinseria areolata
- Sweetbay MagnoliaMagnolia virginiana
- Southern BayberryMorella caroliniensis
Wildlife 171
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common MerganserMergus merganser
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
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 Redhead Slow streams 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)











































