Birding Howard County, Maryland

Species Lists for Font Hill Wetland Park

BIRDS

Snow Goose Canada Goose American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail Common Moorhen Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Caspian Tern Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Great Horned Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker	Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler	Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird 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, Bill Blum, Karan Blum, Rod Burley, Dennis Coskren, Jane Coskren, Karen Darcy, Kevin Heffernan, Bill Hildebrandt, Bill Hill, Gayle Hill, David Holmes, Mike Kerwin, Elayne Metter, Bonnie Ott, Dave Perry, Norma Peterson, Mabel Quinto, Justine Schaeffer, Susan Setterberg, Jo Solem, June Tveekrem, Carol Wilkinson, Jim Wilkinson, Michele Wright, Helen Zeichner.

BUTTERFLIES

Silver-spotted Skipper Wild Indigo Duskywing Least Skipper Fiery Skipper Peck's Skipper Little Glassywing Sachem Zabulon Skipper Pipevine Swallowtail Black Swallowtail	Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Spicebush Swallowtail Cabbage White Clouded Sulphur Orange Sulphur Gray Hairstreak Eastern Tailed-Blue Spring Azure Summer Azure Meadow Fritillary	Pearl Crescent Question Mark Eastern Comma Mourning Cloak Painted Lady Common Buckeye Red-spotted Purple Viceroy Monarch
Contributors: Howard County Butterfly Counts, Jo Solem, June Tveekrem.

DRAGONFLIES

Ebony Jewelwing Southern Spreadwing Spotted Spreadwing Sweetflag Spreadwing Slender Spreadwing Violet Dancer Blue-tipped Dancer Azure Bluet Double-striped Bluet Familiar Bluet Stream Bluet Skimming Bluet Orange Bluet Slender Bluet Citrine Forktail Fragile Forktail Eastern Forktail Black-tipped Darner Shadow Darner Common Green Darner Comet Darner Fawn Darner Swamp Darner Cyrano Darner Unicorn Clubtail	Lancet Clubtail Ashy Clubtail Dragonhunter Appalachian Snaketail Common Sanddragon Eastern Least Clubtail Laura's Clubtail Prince Baskettail Common Baskettail Calico Pennant Halloween Pennant Banded Pennant Common Pondhawk Blue Corporal Golden-winged Skimmer Bar-winged Skimmer Spangled Skimmer Slaty Skimmer Widow Skimmer Twelve-spotted Skimmer Painted Skimmer Great Blue Skimmer Roseate Skimmer Blue Dasher Wandering Glider	Spot-winged Glider Eastern Amberwing Common Whitetail Blue-faced Meadowhawk Ruby Meadowhawk Band-winged Meadowhawk Autumn Meadowhawk Carolina Saddlebags Black Saddlebags Halloween Pennant Photo by June Tveekrem
Contributors: Ken Clayton, Denise Gibbs, Nancy Magnusson, Sue Muller, Richard Orr, Bill Sherman, Bob Solem, Jo Solem, Kate Tufts, June Tveekrem, Michele Wright

AMPHIBIANS

Eastern Red-spotted Newt
American Bullfrog
American Toad
Fowler's Toad
Gray Treefrog
Green Frog
Pickerel Frog
Spring Peeper
Contributors: Howard County FrogWatchUSA, Michele Wright.

REPTILES

Snapping Turtle
Eastern Painted Turtle
Red-eared Slider
Northern Water Snake
Eastern Garter Snake
Rough Green Snake
Black Rat Snake
Contributors: Nancy Magnusson, June Tveekrem, Michele Wright.

INSECTS & SPIDERS

Chinese Mantid
Mason Wasp, Ancistrocerus antilope
Goldenrod Soldier Beetle, Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus
Wolf Spider, Pardosa sp.
Fishing Spider, Dolomedes sp.
Bold Jumper Spider, Phydippus audax
Contributors: June Tveekrem, Michele Wright.

MAMMALS

Red Bat
Mink
Red Fox
Woodchuck
Eastern Chipmunk
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Beaver
White-footed Mouse
Muskrat
White-tailed Deer
Contributors: Brenda Belensky, Joyce Halasz, Jo Solem, June Tveekrem, Michele Wright.

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