Species Lists for Elkhorn Garden Plot

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.”

Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
American Black Duck
Hooded Merganser
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Killdeer
American Woodcock
Wilson’s Snipe
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Yellow-crowned Black Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Green Heron
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher

Acadian 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
Tufted Titmouse
Tree Swallow
Purple Martin
N. Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Bluebird
Swainson’s Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
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
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Black-and-white Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Cape May Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia 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
Wilson’s Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel

Contributors: Jim Wilkinson, Carol Wilkinson, Steve Simon, Kevin Graf, Joe Hanfman.

BUTTERFLIES

  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Long-Tailed Skipper
  • Juvenal’s Duskywing
  • 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
  • Southern Broken Dash
  • Little Glassywing
  • Sachem
  • Hobomok Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper
  • Broad-winged Skipper
  • Dun Skipper
  • Ocola Skipper
  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Zebra Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Little Yellow
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Banded Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Summer Azure
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Americann Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy
  • Northern Pearly-eye
  • Appalachian Brown

Contributors: Howard County Butterfly Survey, Jim Wilkinson, Richard Smith, Emmalyn Holdridge, Jo Solem, Allen Lewis, Annette Allor, Bob Solem, Sue Neri, June Tveekrem, Jane Coskren.

Contributors: Don Waugh, Jo Solem, Jim Wilkinson.