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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.

1 of 6

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Swamp SystemsJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874), a neighboring state.The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. 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.

Summer

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems

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.

SummerDeciduous Plantation
Other habitats in its models (50)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (11)
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer.
Northeast (12)
  • Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Summer.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer.
  • Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer.
Midwest (6)
  • Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer.
  • Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer.
Land cover and other classes (21)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
  • Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
  • Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Migratory: does not nest 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 222

Plant genera in its diet records (17)
  • Pisum 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Quercus Flowers and seeds. 3 diet records. 31 native plants in Arkansas
  • Acer Flowers. 1 diet record. 13 native plants in Arkansas
  • Amelanchier Fruit. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Avena Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Carex Seeds. 1 diet record. 144 native plants in Arkansas
  • Carya 1 diet record. 11 native plants in Arkansas
  • Cenchrus Fruit. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Fagus Flowers. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Impatiens Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Populus Flowers. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Rubus Fruit. 1 diet record. 9 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sambucus Flowers. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Sanguinaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Solanum Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Triticum Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Zea 1 diet record. 0 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.

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 56

Plants 142

All of forest edges and thickets in Arkansas

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 97

Plants 313

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Arkansas

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 121

Plants 17

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources