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

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.
- Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
- Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
- Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Unconsolidated Shore Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Piedmont Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Interior Acid Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Interior Calcareous Cliff Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Year-round: nests here, in all 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 92
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardi
- Wavy HairgrassAvenella flexuosa
- Marginal Wood-fernDryopteris marginalis
- Smooth HydrangeaHydrangea arborescens
- Largeleaf Grass-of-ParnassusParnassia grandifolia
- Sugar MapleAcer saccharum
- Venus's-hair FernAdiantum capillus-veneris
- Common RagweedAmbrosia artemisiifolia
- Downy IndigobushAmorpha canescens
- Gattingers Eastern BluestarAmsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
- Eastern ColumbineAquilegia canadensis
- American SpikenardAralia racemosa
- Black ChokeberryAronia melanocarpa
- Canada Wild-gingerAsarum canadense
- Whorled MilkweedAsclepias verticillata
- Green MilkweedAsclepias viridiflora
- Ebony SpleenwortAsplenium platyneuron
- Walking FernAsplenium rhizophyllum
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Sideoats GramaBouteloua curtipendula
- False BonesetBrickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides
- Bristle-leaf SedgeCarex eburnea
- Inland SedgeCarex interior
Wildlife 164
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Snowy OwlBubo scandiacus
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
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)








































