Species of Greatest Conservation Need (Priority Species)

* Species that are represented in more than one account.

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Birds

  • American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliates)
  • American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)
  • Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
  • Bay Ducks Guild

    • Canvasback (Aythya valisineria)
    • Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)
    • Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis)
    • Redhead (Aythya Americana)
    • Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris)
  • Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)
  • Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis)
  • Black-throated Green Warbler [nominate and Wayne's] (Setophaga virens and S. v. wayneii)
  • Cavity Nesting Bird Guild

    • Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis)
    • Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)
    • Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagic)
    • Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)
    • Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)
    • Purple Martin (Progne subis)
    • Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
    • Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus)
  • Colonial Nesting Seabird Guild

    • Black Skimmer (Rynchops nigra)
    • Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
    • Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
    • Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri)
    • Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
    • Least Tern (Sterna albifrons)
    • Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus)
    • Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
  • Colonial Nesting Wading Birds and Allies Guild

    • Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
    • Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
    • Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
    • Great Egret (Casmerodius albus)
    • Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
    • Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
    • Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)
    • Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
    • Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
    • Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
    • White Ibis (Eudocimus albus)
    • Wood Stork (Mycteria Americana) *
    • Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
    • Allies

      • Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)
  • Common Raven (Corvus corax principalis)
  • Deciduous Forest Interior Birds Guild

    • Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)
    • Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia)
    • Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus)
    • Black-throated Blue Warbler (Setophaga caerulescens)
    • Black-throated Green Warbler [nominate race] (Setophaga virens)
    • Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platyperus)
    • Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulean)
    • Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens)
    • Hooded Warbler (Setophaga americana)
    • Northern Parula (Setophaga americana)
    • Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea)
    • Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra)
    • Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)
    • Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorus)
    • Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)
    • Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo flavifroms)
    • Yellow-throated Warbler (Setophaga dominica)
  • Early- to Mid-Succession Birds Guild

    • Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii)
    • Blue Grosbeak (Guiraca caerulea)
    • Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora pinus)
    • Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)
    • Chestnut-sided Warbler (Dendroica pensylvanic)
    • Dickcissel (Spiza americana)
    • Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)
    • Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)
    • Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera)
    • Gray Kingbird (Tyrannus dominicensis)
    • Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)
    • Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurious)
    • Prairie Warbler (Dendroica discolor)
    • White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus)
    • Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)
    • Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens)
  • Forested Wetlands Bird Guild

    • Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens)
    • Kentucky Warbler (Oporornis formosus)
    • Louisiana Waterthrush (Seiurus motacilla)
    • Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea)
    • Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)
    • Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus)
    • Swainson's Warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii)
    • Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)
  • Grassland Birds Guild

    • Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
    • Common Ground-dove (Columbina passerine)
    • Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna)
    • Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla)
    • Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum)
    • Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)
  • Marsh Bird Guild

    • American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)
    • American Coot (Fulica americana)
    • Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis) *
    • Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris)
    • Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata)
    • King Rail (Rallus elegans)
    • Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis)
    • Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
    • Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica)
    • Sedge Wren (Cistothorus platensis)
    • Sora (Porzana carolina)
    • Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis)
    • Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola)
    • Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicate)
  • Migratory Shorebird Guild

    • American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana)
    • American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica)
    • Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
    • Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
    • Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)
    • Dunlin (Calidris alpine)
    • Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
    • Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
    • Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
    • Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)
    • Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
    • Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)
    • Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
    • Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
    • Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritime)
    • Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
    • Ruddy Turnstone (Aenaria interpres)
    • Sanderling (Calidris alba)
    • Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus)
    • Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
    • Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
    • Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
    • Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia)
    • Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)
    • Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
    • Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
    • White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
    • Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus)
    • Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia)
    • Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago gallinago delicate)
    • Wimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
  • Mountain Coniferous Forest Bird Guild

    • Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)
    • Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa)
    • Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)
    • Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)
  • Nightjar Bird Guild

    • Chuck-Will's-Widow (Caprimulgus carolinensis)
    • Eastern Whip-Poor-Will (Antrostomus vociferous)
  • Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)
  • Painted Bunting [Eastern] (Passerina ciris ciris)
  • Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrines)
  • Pine Savannah Bird Guild

    • American Kestrel [Southeastern race] (Falco sparverius paulus)
    • Bachman's Sparrow (Aimophila aestivalis)
    • Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla)
    • Henslow's Sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii)
    • Pine Warbler (Dendroica pinus)
  • Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis)
  • Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus)
  • Sea Ducks Guild

    • Black Scoter (Melanitta nigra)
    • White-winged Scoter (Melanitta fusca)
  • Seaside Sparrow [MacGillivray's] (Ammodramus maritimus macgillivraii)
  • Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus)
  • Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus)
  • Waterfowl and Allies Guild

    • Dabbling Ducks

      • American Black Duck (Anas rubripes)
      • Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors)
      • Mallard (Anas platyrhyncos)
      • Mottled Duck (Anas fulgiva)
      • Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
    • Allies

      • Common Loon (Gavia immer)
      • Horned Grebe (Podicips auritus)
  • Wood Stork (Mycteria americana)

Crayfish

Diadromous Fish

Freshwater Fish

Freshwater Mussels

Freshwater Shrimp

Insects

Leeches

  • Leeches Guild

    • "A terrestrial leech" (Haemopis septagon)
    • New England Medicinal Leech (Macrobdella sestertia)
    • Biannulate Leech (Placobdella biannulata)
    • "A marine leech" (Branchellion ravenelii)

Mammals

Marine Fish

Marine Invertebrates

Reptiles and Amphibians


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