Species Lists for Patapsco Valley State Park

Compilation of historic and current material from
Avalon, Daniels Road, Henryton Road, Hollofield,
Marriottsville Road, Old Frederick Road,
Sykesville (River Road), and Woodstock Road

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
    Cackling Goose
    Canada Goose
    Trumpeter Swan
    Tundra Swan
    Wood Duck
    Blue-winged Teal
    Northern Shoveler
    Gadwall
    American Wigeon
    Mallard
    American Black Duck
    Northern Pintail
    Green-winged Teal
    Canvasback
    Redhead
    Ring-necked Duck
    Lesser Scaup
    Bufflehead
    Common Goldeneye
    Hooded Merganser
    Common Merganser
    Ruddy Duck
    Wild Turkey
    Pied-billed Grebe
    Horned Grebe
    Rock Pigeon
    Mourning Dove
    Yellow-billed Cuckoo
    Black-billed Cuckoo
    Common Nighthawk
    Eastern Whipporwill
    Chimney Swift
    Ruby-throated Hummingbird
    American Coot
    Killdeer
    Semipalmated Plover
    American Woodcock
    Wilson’s Snipe
    Spotted Sandpiper
    Solitary Sandpiper
    Lesser Yellowlegs
    Greater Yellowlegs
    Dunlin
    Least Sandpiper
    Ring-billed Gull
    Herring Gull
    Caspian Tern
    Common Tern
    Common Loon
    Double-crested Cormorant
    Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
    Black-crowned Night-Heron

Tricolored Heron
Green Heron
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
White Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Barn Owl
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
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed 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
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh 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
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
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
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
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Tennessee 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
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Lawrence’s Warbler

Contributors: Howard County Bird Club field trips, seasonal counts, and breeding bird atlases, Felicia Lovelett, Chuck Stirrat, Steve Schwemmer, Andy Aguilera, Dianne Aguilera, Stan Arnold, Scott Atkinson, Scott Berglund, Eirik Blom, Jon E. Boone, Jon K. Boone, Joseph Byrnes, Russell Chandler, Martha Chestem, Jane Coskren, Jeff Culler, Ralph Cullison III, Darius Ecker, Tom Feild, Jane Geuder, Ralph Geuder, Kevin Graff, Irving Hampe, Dave Harvey, Maureen Harvey, Emmalyn Holdridge, David Holmes, Bill Hubick, Brigitte Lund, Nancy Magnusson, John Maloney, Jenny McClintock, Daryl Olson, Jim Orgain, Bonnie Ott, Tim Ray, Robert Ringler, Kurt Schwarz, Steve Simon, Bob Solem, Joanne Solem, Dan Southworth, Linda Southworth, Brian Sykes, Matt Tillett, Robin Todd, Mark Wright, Helen Zeichner, Timothy Houghton, Grazina McClure.

BUTTERFLIES

  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • JJuvenal’s Duskywing
  • Horace’s Duskywing
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Least Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck’s Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Crossline Skipper
  • Northern Broken-Dash
  • 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
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Harvester
  • Northern Cloudywing
  • Banded Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Azure sp
  • Summer Azure
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Mourning Cloak
  • Americann Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Viceroy
  • Northern Pearly-eye
  • Appalachian Brown
  • Little Wood-Satyr
  • Common Wood-Nymph
  • Monarch

Contributors: Richard Smith, Howard County Butterfly Survey, Jo Solem, Nancy Magnusson, Bob Solem, Jane Coskren, Sarah Haviland, Martha Chestem, June Tveekrem, Annette Allor.

DRAGONFLIES

  • Ebony Jewelwing
  • Spotted Spreadwing
  • Slender Spreadwing
  • Blue-fronted Dancer
  • Violet (Variable) Dancer
  • Powdered Dancer
  • Blue-tipped Dancer
  • Dusky Dancer
  • Azure Bluet
  • Familiar Bluet
  • Stream Bluet
  • Orange Bluet
  • Citrine Forktail
  • Fragile Forktail
  • Eastern Forktail
  • Gray Petaltail
  • Shadow Darner
  • Common Green Darner
  • Springtime Darner
  • Fawn Darner
  • Cyrano Darner
  • Unicorn Clubtail
  • Black-shouldered Spinyleg
  • Cobra Clubtail
  • Ashy Clubtail
  • Rapids Clubtail
  • Dragonhunter
  • Appalachian Snaketail
  • Common Sanddragon
  • Eastern Least Clubtail
  • Laura’s Clubtail
  • Arrow Clubtail
  • Brown Spiketail
  • Tiger Spiketail
  • Twin-spotted Spiketail
  • Swift River Cruiser
  • Umber Shadowdragon
  • Prince Baskettail
  • Mocha Emerald
  • Clamp-tipped Emerald
  • Common Baskettail
  • Calico Pennant
  • Common Pondhawk
  • Spangled Skimmer
  • Widow Skimmer
  • Twelve-spotted Skimmer
  • Painted Skimmer
  • Great Blue Skimmer
  • Blue Dasher
  • Wandering Glider
  • Spot-winged Glider
  • Eastern Amberwing
  • Common Whitetail
  • Black Saddlebags

Contributors: Joanne Solem, Bob Solem, June Tveekrem, Richard Orr, Nancy Magnusson, Bonnie Ott.

MAMMALS

  • Northern Short-tailed Shrew
  • Eastern Mole
  • Red Bat
  • Mink
  • Northern River Otter
  • Eastern Chipmunk
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel
  • American Beaver
  • White-tailed Deer
Contributors: Jo Solem, Jane Coskren, Bob Solem, Phil Smith, HCBC field
trips.

AMPHIBIANS

  • Cope’s Treefrog
  • American Bullfrog
Contributors: Howard County Frog Watch, Jo
Solem

REPTILES

  • E. Gartersnake
  • N. Copperhead
Nancy Magnusson, Jo Solem