Species Lists for Savage Park

Includes Savage Mill Trail & Wincopin Trail

BIRDS (AOS61)

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.”

Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Mallard
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Pied-billed Grebe
Northern Bobwhite
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
Green Heron
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
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
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Common Raven
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Bank Swallow
Tree Swallow
Northern 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
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
House Finch
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Fox Sparrow

Field Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Yellow-breasted Chat
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian 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
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
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Brewster’s Warbler

Contributors: Tom Miller, Jo Solem, Tom Feild, Connie Bockstie, Sue Muller, Kathy Mariano, George Chase, Richard Orr, Peter Osenton, Emmalyn Holdridge, Scott Berglund, Eva Sunell, Michele Wright, John McKitterick, Annette Allor.

BUTTERFLIES

  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Juvenal’s Duskywing
  • Horace’s Duskywing
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Clouded Skipper
  • Least Skipper
  • Peck’s Skipper
  • Little Glassywing
  • Sachem
  • Hobomok Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper
  • Dun Skipper
  • Zebra Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Falcate Orangetip
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Harvester
  • Banded Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • White M Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Azure sp
  • Summer Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Mourning Cloak
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Tawny Emperor
  • Northern Pearly-eye
  • Little Wood-Satyr

Contributor: Joanne Solem, Bob Solem, Sue Muller, Jim Wilkinson, Howard County Butterfly Survey.

DRAGONFLIES

  • Ebony Jewelwing
  • American Rubyspot
  • Blue-fronted Dancer
  • Violet (Variable) Dancer
  • Blue-tipped Dancer
  • Dusky Dancer
  • Familiar Bluet
  • Stream Bluet
  • Shadow Darner
  • Common Green Darner
  • Fawn Darner
  • Ashy Clubtail
  • Dragonhunter
  • Appalachian Snaketail
  • Common Sanddragon
  • Mocha Emerald
  • Halloween Pennant
  • Common Pondhawk
  • Blue Corporal
  • Slaty Skimmer
  • Widow Skimmer
  • Twelve-spotted Skimmer
  • Blue Dasher
  • Wandering Glider
  • Spot-winged Glider
  • Eastern Amberwing
  • Common Whitetail
  • Black Saddlebags

Contributors: Joanne Solem, Bob Solem, Nancy Magnusson, Richard Orr.

AMPHIBIANS

  • Spotted Salamander
  • Eastern Red-backed Salamander
  • American Toad
  • Spring Peeper
  • Cope’s Treefrog
  • Wood Frog
  • Pickerel Frog
  • N. Green Frog
  • American Bullfrog

Contributors: Howard County Frog Watch, Jo Solem, Grazine McClure, Sue Muller (MARA data).

REPTILES

  • E. Box Turtle
  • Common Five-lines Skink
  • N. Brownsnake
  • E. Gartersnake
  • N. Ring-necked Snake
  • N. Black Racer
  • E. Ratsnake
  • N. Copperhead

Contributors: Jo Solem, Jay Sheppard, Sue Muller (MARA data).