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Veery

Catharus fuscescens

Passes through Arkansas on migration. Found in all 75 counties, across 4 habitats.

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

At a glance

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

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

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerSouth-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Mississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

Swamps

Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
SummerOnly within 250 m of water.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; 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.
Other habitats in its models (37)

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

  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

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

Also found in this habitat

Plants 322

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 186

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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