Birding Howard County, Maryland

Species Lists for High Ridge Park

BIRDS

Cackling Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Great Blue Heron Green Heron White Ibis Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk* Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Solitary Sandpiper American Woodcock Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Great Horned Owl* Barred Owl Common Nighthawk Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker* Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker* Hairy Woodpecker* Northern Flicker* Pileated Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Willow 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 Purple Martin Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Carolina Chickadee* Tufted Titmouse* Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch* Brown Creeper Carolina Wren* House Wren Winter Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher* Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Veery* Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush* American Robin* Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Ovenbird* Worm-eating Warbler Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush* Blue-winged Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Mourning Warbler	Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler* American Redstart Cerulean Warbler Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Prairie Warbler* Black-throated Green Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Eastern Towhee* Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow* Grasshopper Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Scarlet Tanager* Northern Cardinal* Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird* Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow * breeding records for these species
Contributors: Karen Darcy, Susan Earp, Wesley Earp, Nancy Magnusson, Bea Newkirk, Chandler Robbins, Jo Solem. Most of the breeding records and a substantial amount of the species data for the April through August period was obtained by Chandler Robbins who had a study site on a portion of this parkland during 1988 and 1989.

BUTTERFLIES

Silver-spotted Skipper Juvenal's Duskywing Wild Indigo Duskywing Least Skipper Little Glassywing Sachem Hobomok Skipper Zabulon Skipper Dun Skipper Spicebush Swallowtail Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Cabbage White Clouded Sulphur Orange Sulphur	Gray Hairstreak Eastern Tailed-Blue Summer Azure Pearl Crescent Eastern Comma Mourning Cloak American Lady Red Admiral Common Buckeye Red-spotted Purple Appalachian Brown Little Wood-Satyr Common Wood Nymph Monarch	Little Wood-Satyr Photo by Sue Earp
Contributors: Jo Solem, Susan Earp, Wesley Earp, Bob Solem.

DRAGONFLIES

Ebony Jewelwing Southern Spreadwing Azure Bluet Familiar Bluet Common Green Darner Comet Darner	Halloween Pennant Eastern Pondhawk Spangled Skimmer Twelve-spotted Skimmer Blue Dasher Wandering Glider	Spot-winged Glider Eastern Amberwing Common Whitetail Ruby Meadowhawk Carolina Saddlebags Black Saddlebags
Contributors: Jo Solem, Bob Solem.

MAMMALS

Eastern Chipmunk Eastern Gray Squirrel Short-tailed Shrew Woodchuck Whitetail Deer

Contributor: Jo Solem.

AMPHIBIANS

Pickerel Frog Northern Green Frog

Contributors: Jo Solem, Bob Solem, Nancy Magnusson

REPTILES

Eastern Box Turtle Skink spp.

Contributors: Jo Solem, Bob Solem, Nancy Magnusson

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