Bird
Snowy Owl
Bubo scandiacus
A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in 17 of 75 counties and 4 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 17 of 75 counties
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 17 of 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.
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (20)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
- Developed, High Intensity Winter.
- Appalachian Shale Barrens Winter.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
- Recently Burned Winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Winter: does not nest here, in 17 of 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 455
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- Shingle OakQuercus imbricaria
- Blackjack OakQuercus marilandica
- Shumard OakQuercus shumardii
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Black OakQuercus velutina
- Missouri Orange ConeflowerRudbeckia missouriensis
- SassafrasSassafras albidum
- Prairie DockSilphium terebinthinaceum
- Saw GreenbrierSmilax bona-nox
- Early GoldenrodSolidago juncea
- Prairie DropseedSporobolus heterolepis
- Goat's-rueTephrosia virginiana
- Poison-ivyToxicodendron radicans
- Long-bract SpiderwortTradescantia bracteata
- Eastern GamagrassTripsacum dactyloides
- Heartleaf Golden-AlexandersZizia aptera
- Common Golden-AlexandersZizia aurea
- Draba apricaAbdra aprica
- Box-elderAcer negundo
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Eastern Red MapleAcer rubrum var. rubrum
- Carolina Red MapleAcer rubrum var. trilobum
- Silver MapleAcer saccharinum
- Sugar MapleAcer saccharum var. saccharum
Wildlife 213
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Snowy Owl
- 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)












































