Bird
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

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Other habitats in its models (19)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Western Great Plains Cliff and Outcrop Year-round.
- Southwestern Great Plains Canyon Year-round.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Year-round.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
- Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Year-round.
- Chihuahuan Mixed Desert and Thorn Scrub Year-round.
- Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Year-round.
- Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Year-round.
- Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Year-round.
- Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Year-round.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Year-round.
- Recently Logged Areas Year-round.
- Recently Burned Year-round.
- Recently Burned Forest Year-round.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Year-round.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Year-round: nests here, in 3 of 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 69
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- White OakQuercus alba
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Little BluestemSchizachyrium scoparium
- Plantain-leaf PussytoesAntennaria plantaginifolia
- Black HickoryCarya texana
- Poverty OatgrassDanthonia spicata
- Beaked HawkweedHieracium gronovii
- Juniperus virginiana var. virginianaJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana
- American Hop-hornbeamOstrya virginiana
- Southern Red OakQuercus falcata
- Blackjack OakQuercus marilandica
- Black OakQuercus velutina
- SparkleberryVaccinium arboreum
- Hillside BlueberryVaccinium pallidum
- Downy ServiceberryAmelanchier arborea
- Wavy HairgrassAvenella flexuosa
- Sideoats GramaBouteloua curtipendula
- Ouachita Mountain SedgeCarex ouachitana
- Pennsylvania SedgeCarex pensylvanica
- Bitternut HickoryCarya cordiformis
- Pignut HickoryCarya glabra
- Mockernut HickoryCarya tomentosa
- SugarberryCeltis laevigata
- Eastern RedbudCercis canadensis
Wildlife 138
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Harris's SparrowZonotrichia querula
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
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 Rufous-crowned Sparrow Elevation 0 to 3,000 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)












































