Species Lists for Font Hill Wetland Park

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
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Northern Shoveler
American Wigeon
Mallard
American Black Duck
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Hooded Merganser
Wild Turkey
Pied-billed Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Virginia Rail
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Killdeer
Wilson’s Snipe
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Little Blue Heron
Green Heron
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Mississippi Kite
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
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
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
Cliff 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
Veery
Swainson’s Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
Purple Finch
White-winged Crossbill
Pine Siskin

American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
American Tree Swallow
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
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
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting

Contributors: Howard County Bird Club field trips and seasonal counts, Bill Blum, Karan Blum, Rod Burley, Dennis Coskren, Jane Coskren, Karen Darcy, Kevin Heffernan, Bill Hildebrandt, Bill Hill, Gayle Hill, David Holmes, Bill Hubick, Mike Kerwin, Sean McGuinn, Elayne Metter, Sue Muller, Bonnie Ott, Howard Patterson, Dave Perry, Norma Peterson, Mabel Quinto, Justine Schaeffer, Susan Setterberg, Jo Solem, Chuck Stirrat, June Tveekrem, Carol Wilkinson, Jim Wilkinson, Michele Wright, Helen Zeichner.

BUTTERFLIES

  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Horace’s Duskywing
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Least Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck’s Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Little Glassywing
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper
  • Ocola Skipper
  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Little Yellow
  • Banded Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Azure sp
  • Summer Azure
  • American Snout
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Meadow Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Mourning Cloak
  • Americann Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy
  • Northern Pearly-eye
  • Monarch

Contributors: Howard County Butterfly Survey, Jo Solem, June Tveekrem, Annette Allor.

DRAGONFLIES

  • Ebony Jewelwing
  • Southern Spreadwing
  • Spotted Spreadwing
  • Sweetflag Spreadwing
  • Slender Spreadwing
  • Violet (Variable) Dancer
  • Blue-tipped Dancer
  • Azure Bluet
  • Double-striped Bluet
  • Familiar Bluet
  • Stream Bluet
  • Skimming Bluet
  • Orange Bluet
  • Slender Bluet
  • Citrine Forktail
  • Fragile Forktail
  • Eastern Forktail
  • Black-tipped Darner
  • Shadow Darner
  • Common Green Darner
  • Comet Darner
  • Fawn Darner
  • Swamp Darner
  • Cyrano Darner
  • Unicorn Clubtail
  • Lancet Clubtail
  • Ashy Clubtail
  • Dragonhunter
  • Appalachian Snaketail
  • Common Sanddragon
  • Eastern Least Clubtail
  • Laura’s Clubtail
  • Prince Baskettail
  • Common Baskettail
  • Calico Pennant
  • Halloween Pennant
  • Banded Pennant
  • Common Pondhawk
  • Blue Corporal
  • Golden-winged Skimmer
  • Bar-winged Skimmer
  • Spangled Skimmer
  • Slaty Skimmer
  • Widow Skimmer
  • Twelve-spotted Skimmer
  • Painted Skimmer
  • Great Blue Skimmer
  • Roseate Skimmer
  • Blue Dasher
  • Wandering Glider
  • Spot-winged Glider
  • Eastern Amberwing
  • Common Whitetail
  • Blue-faced Meadowhawk
  • Ruby Meadowhawk
  • Band-winged Meadowhawk
  • Autumn Meadowhawk
  • Carolina Saddlebags
  • Black Saddlebags

Contributors: Ken Clayton, Denise Gibbs, Nancy Magnusson, Sue Muller, Richard Orr, Bill Sherman, Bob Solem, Jo Solem, Kate Tufts, June Tveekrem, Michele Wright.

Contributors: Brenda Belensky, Joyce Halasz, Jo Solem, June Tveekrem, Michele Wright.

AMPHIBIANS

  • N. Two-lined Salamander
  • American Toad
  • Fowler’s Toad
  • Spring Peeper
  • Gray Treefrog
  • Pickerel Frog
  • N. Green Frog
  • American Bullfrog
Contributors: Howard County FrogWatchUSA, Sue Muller (MARA data), Jo Solem, Michele Wright, Bonnie Ott.

REPTILES

  • E. Painted Turtle
  • Red-eared Slider
  • E. Snapping Turtle
  • N. Red-bellied Cooter
  • >N. Watersnake
  • N. Brownsnake
  • E. Gartersnake
  • N. Rough Greensnake
  • E. Ratsnake
Contributors: Nancy Magnusson, Sue Muller (MARA data), June Tveekrem, Michele Wright.