Birds

Loon, Common Grebe, Pied-billed Grebe, Horned Cormorant, Double-crested Heron, Great Blue Heron, Green Vulture, Black Vulture, Turkey Goose, Canada Duck, Wood Gadwall Duck, Ring-necked Bufflehead Merganser, Hooded Osprey Eagle, Bald Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper’s Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, Red-tailed Kestrel, American Turkey, Wild Bobwhite, Northern Coot, American Killdeer Sandpiper, Solitary Woodcock, American Gull, Laughing Gull, Bonaparte’s Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Dove, Rock Dove, Mourning Cuckoo, Yellow-billed Screech-Owl, Eastern Owl, Great Horned Owl, Barred Nighthawk, Common Chuck-will’s-widow Whip-poor-will Swift, Chimney Hummingbird, Ruby-throated Kingfisher, Belted Woodpecker, Red-headed Woodpecker, Red-bellied Sapsucker, Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Flicker, Northern Woodpecker, Pileated

Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, White-throat ed Junco, Dark-eyed Cardinal, Northern Grosbeak, Blue Bunting, Indigo Blackbird, Red-winged Meadowlark, Eastern Grackle, Common Cowbird, Brown-headed Finch, Purple Finch, House Goldfinch, American

Mammals

Opossum Short-tailed Shrew Eastern Mole Big Brown Bat Red Bat Seminole Bat Eastern Cottontail Gray Squirrel Southern Flying Squirrel American Beaver White-footed Mouse Hispid Cotton Rat Muskrat Raccoon Mink Striped Skunk Coyote Gray Fox Red Fox Bobcat White-tailed Deer

Reptiles Common Snapping Turtle Eastern Box Turtle Eastern River Cooter Gulf Coast Spiny Softshell Northern Fence Lizard Green Anole Five-lined Skink Southeastern Five-lined Skink Ground skink Six-lined Racerunner

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Wood-Pewee, Eastern Flycatcher, Acadian Phoebe, Eastern Flycatcher, Great Crested Kingbird, Eastern Shrike, Loggerhead Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo, Red-eyed Jay, Blue Crow, American Crow, Fish Martin, Purple Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Barn Chickadee, Carolina Titmouse, Tufted Nuthatch, White-breasted Nuthatch, Brown-headed Creeper, Brown Wren, Carolina Wren, House Wren, Winter Kinglet, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Ruby-crowned Gnatcatcher, Blue-gray Bluebird, Eastern Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Wood Robin, American Catbird, Gray Mockingbird, Northern Thrasher, Brown Starling, European Waxwing, Cedar Warbler, Golden-winged Parula, Northern Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Pine Warbler, Black-and-white Redstart, American Warbler, Prothonotary Ovenbird Waterthrush, Louisianna Yellowthroat, Common Warbler, Hooded Chat, Yellow-breasted Tanager, Summer Tanager, Scarlet Towhee, Eastern Sparrow, Chipping

NOTES Notes: (breeding evidence, behavior, specific location and habitat of uncommon species, etc.)

Please send sighting information to:

Conservation Science Specialist 9401 Plaza Road Extension

Charlotte, NC 28215 704-432-1390

MECKLENBURG COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION

Division of Natural Resources

Educational Publication No. 18

A Checklist of the

Vertebrate Fauna of McDowell

Nature Preserve

Reptiles Cont’d

Northern Black Racer Ringneck Snake Black Rat Snake Eastern Hognose Snake Eastern Kingsnake Northern Watersnake Rough Green Snake Brown Snake Eastern Garter Snake Copperhead

Amphibians Spotted Salamander Marbled Salamander Northern Dusky Salamander White-spotted (Slimy) Salamander Eastern Mud Salamander Northern Red Salamander Southern Two-lined Salamander Fowler’s Toad Northern Cricket Frog Cope’s Gray Treefrog Northern Spring Peeper Upland Chorus Frog Bullfrog Green frog

Comments:

Weather Data: Wind Direction: ______ Temperature (°F):______ Sky Code: ______ Wind Code: ______ Precipitation: ______ Wind Codes: 0= smoke rises vertically, 1= smoke moves, 2= wind felt on face, 3= leaves in constant motion, 4= small branches in motion, 5= small trees in sway, 6= above level 5 Sky Codes: 0= clear, 1= scattered clouds, 2= overcast, 3= fog Precipitation Codes: 4= drizzle, 5= snow, 6= showers General Data: Month (abbrv.): ______ Day: _____ Year: ______ Start Time (24 hr.): ______ End Time (24 hr.): ______ Observer (s): Property: Specific Site: Habitat Code: ______ Habitat Codes: 1 = deciduous forest, 2 = pine forest, 3= agricultural field /pasture, 4 = marsh/wetland/bog, 5 = on the road, 6 = flying over, 7 = prairie /warm-season grass-land, 8 = on pond/ lake/ shoreline, 9 = creek / stream / streamside / floodplain, 10 = powerline row, 11 = near build-ing/ ruderal garden /managed yard, 12 = old field/early succes-sion scrub/shrub.