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Redhead

Aythya americana

A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in all 75 counties and 3 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 3

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

1 of 3

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
WinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and BaygallJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874), a neighboring state.The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. Public domain. Source record.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Seeps and springs

Places where groundwater keeps the soil or rock wet, such as seepage slopes and spring runs.

WinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall
Other habitats in its models (22)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (13)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Land cover and other classes (7)
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 75 counties.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 41

Plant genera in its diet records (15)
  • Scirpus Seeds. 4 diet records. 6 native plants in Arkansas
  • Chara Leaves. 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Leersia Seeds. 3 diet records. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Polygonum Seeds. 3 diet records. 5 native plants in Arkansas
  • Potamogeton Flowers and leaves. 3 diet records. 10 native plants in Arkansas
  • Stuckenia Seeds and leaves. 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Glyceria Seeds. 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Halodule Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Ruppia Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Zannichellia Leaves. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Alisma Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Beckmannia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Hordeum Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Lemna Leaves. 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Arkansas
  • Rhizoclonium 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

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.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 60

Plants 143

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in Arkansas

Seeps and springs

Birds 16

Plants 127

All of seeps and springs in Arkansas

Swamps

Birds 62

Plants 223

All of swamps in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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