Howard County Conservancy at Mount Pleasant
Species Lists

Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Mallard
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Northern Bobwhite
Wild Turkey
Ring-necked Pheasant
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
American Woodcock
Wilson’s Snipe
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Bonaparte’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Green Heron
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Golden Eagle
Mississippi Kite
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk

Rough-legged Hawk
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Barred 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
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
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
Carolina 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
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge 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
American Pipit
Evening Grosbeak
House Finch
Purple Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Grasshopper Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
LeConte’s Sparrow
Nelson’s 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
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Tennessee Warbler/td>
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Cape May Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler*
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Palm Warbler*
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel

• Silver-spotted Skipper
• Long-Tailed Skipper
• Northern Cloudywing
• Hayhurst’s Scallopwing
• 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
• Northern Broken-Dash
• LIttle Glassywing
• Sachem
• Hobomok Skipper
• Zabulon Skipper
• Broad-winged Skipper
• Dun Skipper
• Ocola Skipper

• Pipevine Swallowtail
• Zebra Swallowtail
• Black Swallowtail
• Spicebush Swallowtail
• Giant Swallowtail
• Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
• Cabbage White
• Falcate Orangetip
• Clouded Sulphur
• Orange Sulphur
• Cloudless Sulphur
• Sleepy Orange
• Harvester
• American Copper
• Coral Hairstreak
• Banded Hairstreak
• Red-banded Hairstreak
• Juniper Hairstreak
• White M Hairstreak
• Gray Hairstreak
• Eastern Tailed-Blue
• Summer Azure

• American Snout
• Variegated Fritillary
• Great Spangled Fritillary
• Meadow Fritillary
• Silvery Checkerspot
• Pearl Crescent
• Question Mark
• Eastern Comma
• Mourning Cloak
• American Lady
• Painted Lady
• Red Admiral
• Common Buckeye
• Red-spotted Purple
• Viceroy
• Hackberry Emperor
• Tawny Emperor
• Northern Pearly-eye
• Appalachian Brown
• Little Wood-Satyr
• Common Wood-Nymph
• Monarch

Contributors: Dick Smith, Howard County Butterfly Survey, Wes Earp, Sue Earp, Grazine McClure, Bonnie Ott, Jo Solem, Tom Stock, Annette Allor, Emmalyn Holdridge, Timothy Reichard, Kevin & Karen Heffernan, Maryland Biodiversity Project Bioblitz, Cris Ausin.

• Slender Spreadwing
• Azure Bluet
• Double-striped Bluet
• Familiar Bluet
• Stream Bluet
• Citrine Forktail
• Fragile Forktail
• Eastern Forktail
• Ebony Jewelwing

• Violet (Variable) Dancer
• Common Green Darner
• Fawn Darner
• Swamp Darner
• Common Sanddragon
• Brown Spiketail
• Tiger Spiketail
• Twin-spotted Spiketail
• Halloween Skimmer

• Slaty Skimmer
• Painted Skimmer
• Widow Skimmer
• Wandering Glider
• Spot-winged Glider
• Eastern GliderAmberwing
• Common Whitetail
• Autumn Meadowhawk
• Black Saddlebags