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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

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

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
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.

All habitats

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.

Wildlife 138

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources