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Willow Flycatcher

Empidonax traillii

A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 6 habitats.

Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
6
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Arkansas 6

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

1 of 6

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

Freshwater marshes

Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems

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

Wet meadows

Open, wet, grassy or sedgy ground that is not a bog.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerOnly within 120 m of water.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration
Other habitats in its models (6)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (2)
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
Midwest (1)
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer, only within 120 m of water.
Land cover and other classes (3)
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems 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 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.

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 76

Plants 313

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Arkansas

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 102

Plants 17

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Arkansas

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 45

Plants 142

All of forest edges and thickets in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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