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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. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (8)
  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Midwest (6)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Winter.
West (14)
  • California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Winter.
  • California Northern Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Winter.
  • North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Winter.
  • Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
  • Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Winter.
Land cover and other classes (14)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems 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 208

Plant genera in its diet records (24)
  • Eriophorum Leaves and roots. 5 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Oxytropis Leaves and roots. 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Triglochin Leaves and roots. 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Carex Leaves and roots. 3 diet records. 144 native plants in Arkansas
  • Eleocharis Leaves. 3 diet records. 21 native plants in Arkansas
  • Equisetum Leaves. 3 diet records. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Alopecurus Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Dupontia Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Plantago Leaves and roots. 2 diet records. 8 native plants in Arkansas
  • Salix Seeds and leaves. 2 diet records. 6 native plants in Arkansas
  • Schoenoplectus Roots. 2 diet records. 5 native plants in Arkansas
  • Spartina Roots. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Bistorta Roots. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Cerastium Leaves. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Glycine Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Musa 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Oryza Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Phleum Leaves. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Poa Leaves. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sagittaria Roots. 1 diet record. 8 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sorghum Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Trifolium Leaves. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Arkansas
  • Zea Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Zizania 1 diet record. 1 native plant 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 85

Plants 888

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Arkansas

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 102

Plants 17

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Arkansas

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 60

Plants 143

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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