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Ring-necked Pheasant

Phasianus colchicus

Lives in Arkansas all year and nests here. Found in 1 of 75 counties, across 4 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
1 of 75 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
1 of 75 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 4

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

1 of 4

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

Year-roundSoutheastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie; West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie; West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Year-roundCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

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.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration
Other habitats in its models (31)

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 and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
Northeast (1)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Midwest (4)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (13)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Marsh Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Year-round, beside its main habitat.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Year-round: nests here, in 1 of 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 17

Plant genera in its diet records (9)
  • Zea Seeds. 13 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Avena 12 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Triticum 11 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Hordeum 7 diet records. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Eriogonum 3 diet records. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Arundinaria 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Glycine Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Secale 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Persicaria 1 diet record. 11 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 100

Plants 888

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Arkansas

Prairies and grasslands

Birds 48

Plants 187

All of prairies and grasslands in Arkansas

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 121

Plants 17

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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