Bird
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianus
Passes through Arkansas on migration. Found in all 75 counties, across 6 habitats.
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 6

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 6
- Habitat models
- Summer
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Arkansas 6
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Tree plantations and managed pine
Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.
Other habitats in its models (50)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer.
- Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Summer.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
- Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
- Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
- Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Migratory: does not nest here, in all 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 214
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP summer habitat model for Rose-breasted Grosbeak Elevation up to 2,500 m
- 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)

























