Howard County Bird Club

A Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society

Species Lists for Patuxent Branch Trail

Birds

BIRDS (AOS61)

They include many earlier records not included in eBird.

Name	Sp	Su	F	W
Canada Goose	X	X	X	X
Tundra Swan	X
Wood Duck	X		X	X
Mallard	X	X	X	X
Ring-necked Duck	X
Bufflehead	X
Green-winged Teal	X
Hooded Merganser	X			X
Ruddy Duck			X
Wild Turkey			X
Pied-billed Grebe	X		X	X
Rock Pigeon	X		X	X
Mourning Dove	X	X	X	X
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	X	X	X
Black-billed Cuckoo			X
Common Nighthawk	X
Chimney Swift	X	X	X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	X	X	X
Killdeer	X	X	X
Spotted Sandpiper	X	X
Solitary Sandpiper	X
Ring-billed Gull	X		X	X
Common Loon	X
Double-crested Cormorant	X		X
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron		X
Green Heron	X	X	X
Great Egret		X
Great Blue Heron	X	X	X	X
Black Vulture	X	X	X	X
Turkey Vulture	X	X	X	X
Osprey	X	X	X
Bald Eagle	X		X	X
Sharp-shinned Hawk	X		X	X
Cooper’s Hawk	X	X	X	X
Bald Eagle	X		X	X
Red-shouldered Hawk	X	X	X	X
Red-tailed Hawk	X	X	X	X
Eastern Screech-Owl			X
Great Horned Owl	X			X
Barred Owl	X	X	X	X
Belted Kingfisher	X	X	X	X
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	X		X	X
Read-headed Woodpecker	X		X
Red-bellied Woodpecker	X	X	X	X
Downy Woodpecker	X	X	X	X
Hairy Woodpecker	X	X	X	X
Pileated Woodpecker	X	X	X	X
Northern Flicker	X	X	X	X
Merlin	X			X
Olive-sided Flycatcher	X
Eastern Wood-Pewee	X	X	X
Acadian Flycatcher	X	X	X
Willow Flycatcher	X
Least Flycatcher	X
Eastern Phoebe	X	X	X	X
Great Crested Flycatcher	X	X	X
Eastern Kingbird	X	X	X
White-eyed Vireo	X	X
Yellow-throated Vireo	X	X
Blue-headed Vireo	X		X
Philadelphia Vireo			X
Warbling Vireo	X
Red-eyed Vireo	X	X	X
Blue Jay	X	X	X	X
American Crow	X	X	X	X
Fish Crow	X	X	X	X
Common Raven	X	X	X	X
Carolina Chickadee	X	X	X	X
Tufted Titmouse	X	X	X	X
Bank Swallow	X		X
Tree Swallow	X	X	X
N. Rough-winged Swallow	X	X	X
Barn Swallow	X	X	X
Cliff Swallow	X
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	X		X	X
Golden-crowned Kinglet	X		X	X
White-breasted Nuthatch	X	X	X	X
Red-breasted Nuthatch	X		X	X

Cedar WaxwingXXXX

Name	Sp	Su	F	W
Brown Creeper	X		X	X
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	X	X	X
House Wren	X	X	X
Winter Wren	X		X	X
Sedge Wren	X
Marsh Wren	X		X
Carolina Wren	X	X	X	X
European Starling	X	X	X	X
Gray Catbird	X	X	X
Brown Thrasher	X		X
Northern Mockingbird	X	X	X	X
Eastern Bluebird	X	X	X	X
Veery	X		X
Gray-cheeked Thrush	X		X
Swainson’s Thrush	X		X
Hermit Thrush	X		X	X
Wood Thrush	X	X	X
American Robin	X	X	X	X
House Sparrow	X	X	X	X
Evening Grosbeak			X	X
House Finch	X	X	X	X
Purple Finch	X		X	X
White-winged Crossbill	X			X
Pine Siskin	X		X	X
American Goldfinch	X	X	X	X
Chipping Sparrow	X	X	X	X
Field Sparrow	X		X	X
Dark-eyed Junco	X		X	X
White-throated Sparrow	X		X	X
Song Sparrow	X	X	X	X
Swamp Sparrow	X		X
Eastern Towhee	X	X	X
Orchard Oriole	X		X
Baltimore Oriole	X	X	X
Red-winged Blackbird	X	X	X	X
Brown-headed Cowbird	X	X	X	X
Common Grackle	X	X	X	X
Ovenbird	X		X
Worm-eating Warbler	X
Louisiana Waterthrush	X	X	X
Northern Waterthrush	X
Golden-winged Warbler	X		X
Blue-winged Warbler	X		X
Black-and-white Warbler	X		X
Prothonotary Warbler	X
Tennessee Warbler	X		X
Nashville Warbler	X		X
Mourning Warbler			X
Kentucky Warbler	X		X
Common Yellowthroat	X	X	X
Hooded Warbler			X
American Redstart	X	X	X
Cape May Warbler	X		X
Northern Parula	X	X	X
Magnolia Warbler	X		X
Bay-breasted Warbler*	X		X
Blackburnian Warbler	X		X
Yellow Warbler	X
Chestnut-sided Warbler	X		X
Blackpoll Warbler*	X	X	X
Black-throated Blue Warbler	X		X
Palm Warbler*	X		X
Pine Warbler*	X		X
Yellow-rumped Warbler	X		X	X
Yellow-throated Warbler	X
Prairie Warbler	X
Black-throated Green Warbler	X		X
Canada Warbler	X	X	X
Wilson’s Warbler	X		X
Scarlet Tanager	X	X	X
Northern Cardinal	X	X	X	X
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	X		X
Blue Grosbeak	X	X	X
Indigo Bunting	X	X	X

Contributors: Steve Collins, Tom Miller, Jo Solem, Steve Schwemmer, John McKitterick, Dan Southworth, Linda Southworth, Michelle Stewart, Barry Miller, Kathy Glyshaw.

BUTTERFLIES

Silver-spotted Skipper Juvenal’s Duskywing Horace’s Duskywing Wild Indigo Duskywing Common Checkered-Skipper Swarthy Skipper Clouded Skipper Least Skipper Fiery Skipper Peck’s Skipper Tawny-edged Skipper Crossline Skipper Southern Broken Dash LIttle Glassywing Sachem Zabulon Skipper Dun Skipper	Ocola Skipper Zebra Swallowtail Black Swallowtail Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Spicebush Swallowtail Cabbage White Falcate Orangetip Clouded Sulphur Orange Sulphur Cloudless Sulphur Sleepy Orange Banded Hairstreak Red-banded Hairstreak White M Hairstreak Gray Hairstreak Eastern Tailed-Blue	Azure sp Summer Azure Variegated Fritillary Silvery Checkerspot Pearl Crescent Question Mark Eastern Comma Mourning Cloak American Lady Painted Lady Red Admiral Common Buckeye Red-spotted Purple Northern Pearly-eye Little Wood-Satyr Monarch
Contributors: Howard County Butterfly Survey, Steve Collins, Joanne Solem, June Tveekrem, Annette Allor.

DRAGONFLIES

Ebony Jewelwing American Rubyspot Slender Spreadwing Blue-fronted Dancer Violet (Variable) Dancer Blue-tipped Dancer Azure Bluet Stream Bluet Citrine Forktail Fragile Forktail Eastern Forktail	Shadow Darner Common Green Darner Swamp Darner Lancet Clubtail Ashy Clubtail Black-shouldered Spinyleg Dragonhunter Common Sanddragon Stream Cruiser Swift River Cruiser Common Baskettail	Common Pondhawk Slaty Skimmer Widow Skimmer Twelve-spotted Skimmer Great Blue Skimmer Blue Dasher Eastern Amberwing Common Whitetail Band-winged Meadowhawk Autumn Meadowhawk Carolina Saddlebags
Contributors: Steve Collins, Joanne Solem, Bob Solem.

MAMMALS

Northern Short-tailed Shrew
Black Bear
Red Fox
Woodchuck
Eastern Chipmunk
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Southern Flying Squirrel
American Beaver
White-tailed Deer

Contributors: Steve Collins, Joanne Solem, Bob Solem, Sue Muller.

AMPHIBIANS

Spotted Salamander
N. Spring Salamander
American Toad
Spring Peeper
Gray Treefrog
Wood Frog

Contributors: Steve Collins, Joanne Solem; Sue Muller (MARA data).

REPTILES

Red-eared Slider
N. Watersnake
N. Brownsnake
E. Gartersnake
N. Black Racer
E. Ratsnake

Contributors: Steve Collins, Joanne Solem; Sue Muller (MARA data).