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Smith's Longspur

Calcarius pictus

A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in all 75 counties and 2 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Winter

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

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

WinterArkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland; Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie; West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

WinterCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (13)

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

Midwest (3)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
Land cover and other classes (10)
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Winter: 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 210

Plant genera in its diet records (14)
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Ambrosia 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Carex 1 diet record. 144 native plants in Arkansas
  • Digitaria 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Echinochloa 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Eleusine 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Euphorbia 1 diet record. 19 native plants in Arkansas
  • Hordeum 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Panicum 1 diet record. 12 native plants in Arkansas
  • Phleum 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Scirpus 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sporobolus 1 diet record. 14 native plants in Arkansas
  • Trifolium 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Triticum 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.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 100

Plants 888

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Arkansas

Prairies and grasslands

Birds 48

Plants 187

All of prairies and grasslands in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources