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Birding Howard County, Maryland

Species Lists for Race Road Wetlands

BIRDS

  • Canada Goose
  • Wood Duck
  • Gadwall
  • American Black Duck
  • Mallard
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • American Bittern
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Green Heron
  • Black-crowned Night-Heron
  • Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
  • Black Vulture
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Bald Eagle
  • Northern Harrier
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Red-shouldered Hawk
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • Virginia Rail
  • Sora
  • American Coot
  • Killdeer
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Least Sandpiper
  • American Woodcock
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Mourning Dove
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  • Eastern Screech-Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Barred 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
  • Acadian 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
  • Tree Swallow
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Carolina Chickadee
  • Tufted Titmouse
  • White-breasted Nuthatch
  • Carolina Wren
  • House Wren
  • Winter 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
  • Blue-winged Warbler
  • Northern Parula
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Magnolia Warbler
  • Black-throated Blue Warbler
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler
  • Black-throated Green Warbler
  • Prairie Warbler
  • Palm Warbler
  • Blackpoll Warbler
  • Black-and-white Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Prothonotary Warbler
  • Ovenbird
  • Northern Waterthrush
  • Louisiana Waterthrush
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Hooded Warbler
  • Yellow-breasted Chat
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Eastern Towhee
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Field Sparrow
  • Song Sparrow
  • Lincoln's Sparrow
  • Swamp Sparrow
  • White-throated Sparrow
  • Dark-eyed Junco
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Blue Grosbeak
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Rusty Blackbird
  • Common Grackle
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Orchard Oriole
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • House Finch
  • American Goldfinch
  • House Sparrow
Prothonotary Warbler
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Photo by Kurt Schwarz
Contributors: Stan Arnold, John Maloney, Emmalyn Holdridge, Nancy Magnusson, Jo Solem, Bonnie Ott, Steve Schwemmer, Ann Coren, Bob Coren, Bob Ringler, Saundra Byrd, Bill Hill.

BUTTERFLIES

  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Horace's Duskywing
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Northern Broken-Dash
  • Little Glassywing
  • Dun Skipper
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Viceroy
  • Appalachian Brown
  • Monarch
Contributors: Nancy Magnusson, Dick Smith, Jo Solem

DRAGONFLIES

  • Ebony Jewelwing
  • Blue-fronted Dancer
  • Violet Dancer
  • Blue-tipped Dancer
  • Stream Bluet
  • Fragile Forktail
  • Common Green Darner
  • Swamp Darner
  • Cyrano Darner
  • Unicorn Clubtail
  • Dragonhunter
  • Common Sanddragon
  • Common Baskettail
  • Common Pondhawk
  • Spangled Skimmer
  • Slaty Skimmer
  • Widow Skimmer
  • Twelve-spotted Skimmer
  • Great Blue Skimmer
  • Blue Dasher
  • Wandering Glider
  • Eastern Amberwing
  • Common Whitetail
  • Black Saddlebags
Contributors: Bob Solem, Jo Solem, June Tveekrem

AMPHIBIANS

REPTILES

  • American Bullfrog
  • American Toad
  • Gray Treefrog
  • Green Frog
  • Pickerel Frog
  • Spring Peeper
  • Snapping Turtle
  • Eastern Painted Turtle
  • Red-bellied Turtle
  • Red-eared Slider
  • Northern Watersnake
  • Black Rat Snake
Red-bellied Turtle
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Photo by Emmayln Holdridge
Contributors: Emmayln Holdridge, Nancy Magnusson, Jo Solem Contributors: Bill Hill, Emmayln Holdridge, Nancy Magnusson, Jo Solem

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