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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

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

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.
Other habitats in its models (31)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.

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

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Year-round: nests here, in 1 of 75 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 225

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 218

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources