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Willow Flycatcher

Empidonax traillii

A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 4 habitats.

Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests 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

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.

Summer

Floodplain and bottomland forests

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

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Mississippi River Riparian Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain

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

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
SummerOnly within 120 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 (7)

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

  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in all 75 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 8 of 75 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 428

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

Wildlife 212

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.

Sources