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Snow Goose

Chen caerulescens

A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in all 75 counties and 4 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 4

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

1 of 4

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.

Winter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

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

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
Other habitats in its models (44)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.

  • Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Winter.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
  • California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Winter.
  • California Northern Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Winter.
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Winter.
  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Winter.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 75 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Wildlife 220

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.

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