Birding Howard County, Maryland

Species Lists for Alpha Ridge Park

BIRDS

Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Wild Turkey Common Loon American Bittern Green Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Killdeer Solitary Sandpiper Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe	Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow N. Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Ovenbird Louisiana Waterthrush Blue-winged Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Nashville Warbler Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Northern Parula	Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch Pine Siskin American Goldfinch House Sparrow
Contributors: Howard County Bird Club field trips and seasonal counts, Ralph Cullison, Darius Ecker, Paula Sortino, Nancy Magnusson, Bonnie Ott, Jo Solem, Jim Wilkinson

BUTTERFLIES

Silver-spotted Skipper Common Checkered-Skipper Least Skipper Tawny-edged Skipper Zabulon Skipper Dun Skipper Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Cabbage White Clouded Sulphur	Orange Sulphur Gray Hairstreak Eastern Tailed-Blue Spring Azure American Snout Variegated Fritillary Great Spangled Fritillary Meadow Fritillary	Pearl Crescent Eastern Comma Mourning Cloak American Lady Painted Lady Common Buckeye Viceroy Monarch
Contributors: Nancy Magnusson, Jo Solem, Jim Wilkinson

DRAGONFLIES

Ebony Jewelwing Great Spreadwing Southern Spreadwing Spotted Spreadwing Slender Spreadwing Violet Dancer Azure Bluet Familiar Bluet Skimming Bluet Orange Bluet Citrine Forktail	Fragile Forktail Eastern Forktail Black-tipped Darner Common Green Darner Swamp Darner Calico Pennant Halloween Pennant Common Pondhawk Spangled Skimmer Slaty Skimmer Widow Skimmer	Twelve-spotted Skimmer Painted Skimmer Blue Dasher Wandering Glider Spot-winged Glider Eastern Amberwing Common Whitetail Blue-faced Meadowhawk Autumn Meadowhawk Carolina Saddlebags Black Saddlebags
Contributors: Nancy Magnusson, Bob Solem, Jo Solem, June Tveekrem

AMPHIBIANS

Spotted Salamander American Toad Spring Peeper Cope's Gray Treefrog Gray Treefrog Wood Frog Southern Pickerel Frog Northern Green Frog American Bullfrog

Contributors: Howard County Frogwatch, Sue Muller (MARA data)

REPTILES

Eastern Box Turtle

Contributor: Sue Muller

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