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Birding Howard County, Maryland

Species Lists for Elkhorn Branch Garden Plots

BIRDS

  • Canada Goose
  • Wood Duck
  • Mallard
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Green Heron
  • Black-crowned Night-Heron
  • Black Vulture
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Northern Harrier
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • Red-shouldered Hawk
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • American Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Killdeer
  • Wilson's Snipe
  • American Woodcock
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Rock Dove
  • Mourning Dove
  • Black-billed Cuckoo
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  • Barred Owl
  • Chimney Swift
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Northern Flicker
  • Pileated Woodpecker
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • Acadian Flycatcher
  • Alder Flycatcher
  • Willow Flycatcher
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Eastern Phoebe
  • Great Crested Flycatcher
  • Eastern Kingbird
  • White-eyed Vireo
  • Yellow-throated Vireo
  • Blue-headed Vireo
  • Warbling Vireo
  • Red-eyed Vireo
  • Blue Jay
  • American Crow
  • Fish Crow
  • Tree Swallow
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Carolina Chickadee
  • Tufted Titmouse
  • White-breasted Nuthatch
  • Carolina Wren
  • House Wren
  • Winter Wren
  • Marsh Wren
  • Golden-crowned Kinglet
  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  • Eastern Bluebird
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Wood Thrush
  • American Robin
  • Gray Catbird
  • Northern Mockingbird
  • Brown Thrasher
  • European Starling
  • Cedar Waxwing
  • Tennessee Warbler
  • Orange-crowned Warbler
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Northern Parula
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Magnolia Warbler
  • Black-throated Blue Warbler
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler
  • Black-throated Green Warbler
  • Palm Warbler
  • Connecticut Warbler
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Wilson's Warbler
  • Yellow-breasted Chat
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Dickcissel
  • 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
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Common Grackle
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Orchard Oriole
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Purple Finch
  • House Finch
  • Pine Siskin
  • American Goldfinch
  • House Sparrow
Contributors: Jim Wilkinson, Steve Simon.

BUTTERFLIES

  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Horace's Duskywing
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Least Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Ocola Skipper
  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Little Yellow
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Summer Azure
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy
  • Monarch
  • Buckeye
    Buckeye
    Photo by Jim Wilkinson
Contributor: Jim Wilkinson.

MAMMALS

  • Opossum
  • Raccoon
  • Striped Skunk
  • Coyote
  • Red Fox
  • Woodchuck
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel
  • Beaver
  • Muskrat
  • Eastern Cottontail
  • Whitetail Deer
Contributors: Don Waugh, Jo Solem, Jim Wilkinson.

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