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Rufous-crowned Sparrow

Aimophila ruficeps

Lives in Arkansas all year and nests here. Found in 3 of 75 counties, across 2 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
3 of 75 counties
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
3 of 75 counties
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Arkansas 2

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 2

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

Year-roundOzark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration
Other habitats in its models (19)

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

In Arkansas 2

  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Year-round.
Elsewhere in the South (7)
  • Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Year-round.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Year-round.
  • Southwestern Great Plains Canyon Year-round.
  • Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Year-round.
  • Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
West (3)
  • Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Year-round.
  • Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Cliff and Outcrop Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (7)
  • Chihuahuan Mixed Desert and Thorn Scrub Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Forest Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Recently Logged Areas Year-round.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Year-round: nests here, in 3 of 75 counties.

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

Dry forests and woodlands

Birds 36

Plants 152

All of dry forests and woodlands in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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