Species Lists for Centennial Park

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BIRDS

The list below is based on early records plus those in eBird. The the most complete seasonal and habitat records, see Howard county Annotated Records on the drop-down menu “Birding.”

Snow Goose
Ross’s Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
Mallard
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Northern Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
American Woodcock
Wilson’s Snipe
Red Phalarope
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Little Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Iceland Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Forster’s Tern
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron

Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Western Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Mississippi Kite
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
American Goshawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Olive-sided Flycatcher
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
Philadelphia Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Common Raven
Carolina Chickadee
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Horned Lark
Bank Swallow
Tree Swallow
Purple Martin
N. Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Marsh Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird

Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
American Pipit
Evening Grosbeak
House Finch
Purple Finch
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Grasshopper Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Yellow-breasted Chat
Bobolink
Eastern Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting

Contributors: Contributors: HCBC field trips and seasonal counts, Parks Checklist Project, David Abbott, Scott Atkinson, Glenn Austin, Mary-Jo Betts, Robert Betts, Jonathan Blithe, Connie Bockstie, Martha Chestem, Jane Coskren, Ralph Cullison, Karen Darcy, Phil Davis, Darius Ecker, Kevin Graff, Joe Hanfmann, Kevin Heffernan, Emy Holdridge, Mike Kerwin, Mike Leumas, Kathy Litzinger, Nancy Magnusson, Grazina McClure, Mike McClure, Helen Metzman, Rodney Mulchansingh, Larry Murphy, Doug Odermatt, Richard Orr, Peter Osenton, Bonnie Ott, Howard Patterson, Norma Peterson, Phill Probst, Sue Probst, Tim Ray, Bob Ringler, Matt Rogosky, Steve Sanford, Kurt Schwarz, Jo Solem, Paula Sortino, Hank Stanton, Grace Su, June Tveekrem, Carol Wilkinson, Jim Wilkinson, Helen Zeichner, Paul Zucker, Bob Augustine, Dave Ziolkowski, Wes Earp, Renee Peters, Richard Peters, Jeff Culler

BUTTERFLIES

  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Southern Cloudywing
  • Horace’s Duskywing
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Common Sootywing
  • Swarthy Skipper
  • Clouded Skipper
  • Least Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck’s Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Crossline Skipper
  • LIttle Glassywing
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper
  • Dun Skipper
  • Ocola Skipper
  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Zebra Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Falcate Orangetip
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Sleepy Orange
  • American Copper
  • Coral Hairstreak
  • Banded Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Juniper Hairstreak
  • White M Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Azure sp
  • Summer Azure
  • Americann Snout
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Meadow Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Mourning Cloak
  • Americann Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Northern Pearly-eye
  • Appalachian Brown
  • Little Wood-Satyr
  • Common Wood-Nymph
  • Monarch

Contributors: Dick Smith, Howard County Butterfly Survey, Richard Orr, Jo Solem, Tim Ray, Sue Muller, Annette Allor.

DRAGONFLIES

  • Ebony Jewelwing
  • Great Spreadwing
  • Southern Spreadwing
  • Sweetflag Spreadwing
  • Slender Spreadwing
  • Blue-fronted Dancer
  • Violet (Variable) Dancer
  • Powdered Dancer
  • Blue-tipped Dancer
  • Dusky Dancer
  • Azure Bluet
  • Double-striped Bluet
  • Familiar Bluet
  • Stream Bluet
  • Skimming Bluet
  • Orange Bluet
  • Vesper Bluet
  • Citrine Forktail
  • Lilypad Forktail
  • Fragile Forktail
  • Rambur’s Forktail
  • Eastern Forktail
  • Shadow Darner
  • Common Green Darner
  • Comet Darner
  • Fawn Darner
  • Swamp Darner
  • Unicorn Clubtail
  • Dragonhunter
  • Prince Baskettail
  • Clamp-tipped Emerald
  • Common Baskettail
  • Calico Pennant
  • Halloween Pennant
  • Banded Pennant
  • Common Pondhawk
  • Golden-winged Skimmer
  • Spangled Skimmer
  • Yellow-sided Skimmer
  • Slaty Skimmer
  • Widow Skimmer
  • Twelve-spotted Skimmer
  • Painted Skimmer
  • Great Blue Skimmer
  • Blue Dasher
  • Wandering Glider
  • Spot-winged Glider
  • Eastern Amberwing
  • Common Whitetail
  • Blue-faced Meadowhawk
  • Ruby Meadowhawk
  • Autumn Meadowhawk
  • Carolina Saddlebags
  • Black Saddlebags

AMPHIBIANS

  • Spotted Salamander
  • Northern Red Salamander
  • American Toad
  • Fowler’s Toad
  • Spring Peeper
  • Gray Treefrog
  • Wood Frog
  • Pickerel Frog
  • N. Green Frog
  • American Bullfrog
Contributors: Howard County FrogWatchUSA; Sue Muller (MARA data).

REPTILES

  • E. Painted Turtle
  • E. Snapping Turtle
  • Alligator Snapping Turtle
  • E. Painted Turtle
  • Red-eared Slider
  • N. Red-bellied Cooter
  • N. Ring-necked Snake
  • N. Watersnake
  • N. Brownsnake
  • E. Gartersnake
  • E. Hog-nosed Snake
  • N. Black Racer
  • E. Ratsnake
Contributors: Jo Solem, Jane Coskren, Nancy Magnusson, Sue Muller, Richard Orr, Michele Wright; Sue Muller (MARA data), Barbara Sikorski