Howard County Bird Club

A Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society

Species Lists for Poplar Springs Park

BIRDS (AOS61)

They include many earlier records not included in eBird.

Canada Goose
Mallard
Wild Turkey
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ring-billed Gull
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe

Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
House Wren
Winter Wren
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
House Sparrow
House Finch
Pine Siskin

American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Palm Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel

Contributors: Jeff Culler, Bill Hill, Gayle Hill, Nancy Magnusson, Sue Muller, Jo Solem, Helen Metzman, Kurt Schwarz, David Weber.

BUTTERFLIES

  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Least Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Meadow Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Mourning Cloak
  • American Lady
  • Common Buckeye
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Northern Pearly-eye
  • Monarch

Contributors: Nancy Magnusson, Sue Muller, Jo Solem, Jeff Culler.

AMPHIBIANS

  • American Toad
  • Gray Treefrog
  • Northern Green Frog
Contributor: Sue Muller (MARA data)

REPTILES

  • Eastern Box Turtle
Contributor: Sue Muller (MARA data).