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Birding Howard County, Maryland

Species Lists for High Ridge Park

BIRDS

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 Red-shouldered Hawk* Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Solitary Sandpiper American Woodcock 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 Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee* Tufted Titmouse* Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch* Brown Creeper Carolina Wren* House Wren Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher* Eastern Bluebird Veery* Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush* American Robin* Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler	Prairie Warbler* Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird* Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush* Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler* Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager* Eastern Towhee* Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow* Grasshopper Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco 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 Anglewing sp. Mourning Cloak American Lady Red Admiral Common Buckeye Red-spotted Purple Appalachian Brown Little Wood-Satyr Monarch	Little Wood-Satyr Photo by Sue Earp
Contributors: Jo Solem, Susan Earp, Wesley Earp.

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.

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