Species Lists for High Ridge Park
(Historical data through 2025)
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Wild Turkey
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Killdeer
Solitary Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
American Herring Gull
Caspian Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
White Ibis
Green Heron
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
American Goshawk
Bald Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-shouldered 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
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
Common Raven
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Purple Martin
N. Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Northern House Wren
Winter 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
House Sparrow
House Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Grasshopper Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Baltimore Oriole
Yellow-breasted Chat
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Rusty Cowbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Blackburnian 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
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Contributors: Karen Darcy, Susan Earp, Wesley Earp, Nancy Magnusson, Bea Newkirk, Chandler Robbins, Jo Solem, Leonard Brady. 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.
- Silver-spotted Skipper
- Juvenal’s Duskywing
- Horace’s Duskywing
- Wild Indigo Duskywing
- Least Skipper
- LIttle Glassywing
- Sachem
- Hobomok Skipper
- Zabulon Skipper
- Dun Skipper
- Zebra Swallowtail
- Black Swallowtail
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- Spicebush Swallowtail
- Cabbage White
- Falcate Orangetip
- Clouded Sulphur
- Orange Sulphur
- Red-banded Hairstreak
- Henry’s Elfin
- Gray Hairstreak
- Eastern Tailed-Blue
- Summer Azure
- Pearl Crescent
- Eastern Comma
- Mourning Cloak
- Americann Lady
- Red Admiral
- Common Buckeye
- Red-spotted Purple
- Northern Pearly-eye
- Appalachian Brown
- Little Wood-Satyr
- Common Wood-Nymph
- Monarch
Contributors: Howard County Butterfly Survey, Jo Solem, Susan Earp, Wesley Earp, Bob Solem, Jim Wilkinson.
- Ebony Jewelwing
- Southern Spreadwing
- Azure Bluet
- Familiar Bluet
- Common Green Darner
- Comet Darner
- Halloween Pennant
- Common Pondhawk
- Spangled Skimmer
- Twelve-spotted Skimmer
- Great Blue Skimmer
- Blue Dasher
- Wandering Glider
- Spot-winged Glider
- Eastern Amberwing
- Common Whitetail
- Ruby Meadowhawk
- Carolina Saddlebags
- Black Saddlebags
Contributors: Jo Solem, Bob Solem.