Bird
Rock Pigeon
Columba livia
Lives in Arkansas all year and nests here. Found in all 75 counties, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Year-round
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.
Granite and other acidic rock outcrops
Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.
Other habitats in its models (13)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.
Elsewhere in the South (4)
- Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Interior Acid Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Piedmont Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Northeast (2)
- North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (7)
- Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
- Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Unconsolidated Shore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Year-round: nests 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 69
- Little BarleyHordeum pusillum
- American PlumPrunus americana
- Black CherryPrunus serotina
- Black CherryPrunus serotina var. serotina
- Carolina Laurel CherryPrunus caroliniana
- Chickasaw PlumPrunus angustifolia
- Choke CherryPrunus virginiana
- ChokecherryPrunus virginiana var. virginiana
- Hog PlumPrunus umbellata
- Hortulan PlumPrunus hortulana
- Mexican PlumPrunus mexicana
- Oklahoma PlumPrunus gracilis
- Sand CherryPrunus pumila
- Susquehanna CherryPrunus pumila var. susquehanae
- Matweed AmaranthAmaranthus blitoides
- Redroot AmaranthAmaranthus retroflexus
- Rough-fruit AmaranthAmaranthus tuberculatus
- Smooth PigweedAmaranthus hybridus
- White AmaranthAmaranthus albus
- Shaggy CrabgrassDigitaria villosa
- Slender CrabgrassDigitaria filiformis
- Phytolacca americana var. americanaPhytolacca americana var. americana
- American PokeweedPhytolacca americana
- Bushy KnotweedPolygonum ramosissimum subsp. prolificum
Plant genera in its diet records (15)
- Avena 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
- Hordeum 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Arkansas
- Prunus 2 diet records. 13 native plants in Arkansas
- Triticum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
- Zea 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
- Amaranthus 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Arkansas
- Digitaria 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
- Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
- Phytolacca 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
- Polygonum 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Arkansas
- Quercus 1 diet record. 31 native plants in Arkansas
- Robinia 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
- Sorghum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
- Toxicodendron 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
- Ulmus 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Arkansas
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
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
- Interior Least TernSternula antillarum athalassos
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- 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
Granite and other acidic rock outcrops
Birds 19
- Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
Plants 29
- Shortpod DrabaAbdra brachycarpa
- Bradley's SpleenwortAsplenium bradleyi
- Lobed SpleenwortAsplenium pinnatifidum
- Appalachian Cliff FernWoodsia appalachiana
- Wright's CliffbrakePellaea wrightiana
- Hairy LipfernMyriopteris lanosa
- Pleatleaf KnotweedPolygonum tenue
- Mapleleaf GoosefootChenopodium simplex
- Slender False FoxgloveAgalinis tenuifolia
- Hairy SpiderwortTradescantia hirsuticaulis
- Southern BluetHoustonia micrantha
- HarperellaHarperella nodosa
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Birds 20
- Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Snowy OwlBubo scandiacus
- Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
Plants 123
- Gattingers Prairie CloverDalea gattingeri
- Heartleaf PlantainPlantago cordata
- Pink PurslanePortulaca pilosa
- WidowscrossSedum pulchellum
- Clematis fremontiiClematis fremontii
- Arkansas CalamintClinopodium arkansanum
- Blackstem SpleenwortAsplenium resiliens
- Walking FernAsplenium rhizophyllum
- Michauxs Glade CressLeavenworthia uniflora
- Bulblet Bladder FernCystopteris bulbifera
- Limestone Adders TongueOphioglossum engelmannii
- Tennessee Bladder FernCystopteris tennesseensis
All of glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone in Arkansas
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP year-round habitat model for Rock Pigeon Includes developed land
- 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)
- Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab) (CC0 1.0), diet records by plant genus


























































