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BREC's Fauna Conservation Park Guide

This guide provides a resource for a majority of the animals that you may come across within a BREC Conservation Area. Make sure you use it as a checklist to document what you see at our parks! From turtles and snakes, to beavers and dragonflies use this to learn more about your local ...more ↓

Great Blue Heron 1
Ardea herodias
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Nycticorax nycticorax
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3
Nyctanassa violacea
Least Bittern 4
Ixobrychus exilis
Cattle Egret
Bubulcus ibis
Green Heron 5
Butorides virescens
American Bittern 6
Botaurus lentiginosus
Anhinga 7
Anhinga anhinga
Sharp-shinned Hawk 8
Accipiter striatus
Cooper's Hawk
Accipiter cooperii
Northern Harrier 9
Circus cyaneus
Swainson's Hawk 10
Buteo swainsoni
Rough-legged Hawk 11
Buteo lagopus
Red-shouldered Hawk 12
Buteo lineatus
Red-tailed Hawk 13
Buteo jamaicensis
Broad-winged Hawk 14
Buteo platypterus
Swallow-tailed Kite 15
Elanoides forficatus
Bald Eagle 16
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Harris's Hawk 15
Parabuteo unicinctus
Mississippi Kite 15
Ictinia mississippiensis
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Amazilia yucatanensis
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Archilochus colubris
Chimney Swift 17
Chaetura pelagica
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 18
Dendrocygna autumnalis
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 19
Dendrocygna bicolor
Black Swan 20
Cygnus atratus
Mute Swan 21
Cygnus olor
American Black Duck 5
Anas rubripes
Eurasian Wigeon 6
Anas penelope
Mallard 22
Anas platyrhynchos
Northern Pintail 23
Anas acuta
Green-winged Teal 24
Anas crecca
Mottled Duck 6
Anas fulvigula
Blue-winged Teal 25
Anas discors
Gadwall 26
Anas strepera
Northern Shoveler 25
Anas clypeata
American Wigeon 27
Anas americana
Common Goldeneye 28
Bucephala clangula
Bufflehead 25
Bucephala albeola
Red-breasted Merganser 29
Mergus serrator
Swan Goose 30
Anser cygnoides
Greater White-fronted Goose 31
Anser albifrons
Surf Scoter 25
Melanitta perspicillata
Ring-necked Duck 25
Aythya collaris
Greater Scaup
Aythya marila
Lesser Scaup 32
Aythya affinis
Redhead
Aythya americana
Canvasback 15
Aythya valisineria
Ross' Goose 33
Chen rossii
Snow Goose 25
Chen caerulescens
Ruddy Duck 34
Oxyura jamaicensis
Canada Goose 35
Branta canadensis
Wood Duck 36
Aix sponsa
Hooded Merganser 37
Lophodytes cucullatus
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschata
Horned Lark 38
Eremophila alpestris
Brown Creeper 39
Certhia americana
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 15
Polioptila caerulea
Carolina Wren 40
Thryothorus ludovicianus
Winter Wren 24
Troglodytes troglodytes
House Wren 15
Troglodytes aedon
Bewick's Wren 41
Thryomanes bewickii
Sedge Wren 15
Cistothorus platensis
Marsh Wren 25
Cistothorus palustris
Fish Crow 42
Corvus ossifragus
American Crow 43
Corvus brachyrhynchos
Lincoln's Sparrow 44
Melospiza lincolnii
Swamp Sparrow 45
Melospiza georgiana
Song Sparrow 46
Melospiza melodia
Chipping Sparrow 47
Spizella passerina
Clay-colored Sparrow 15
Spizella pallida
Field Sparrow 48
Spizella pusilla
Fox Sparrow 31
Passerella iliaca
White-crowned Sparrow 49
Zonotrichia leucophrys
Harris's Sparrow 50
Zonotrichia querula
White-throated Sparrow 51
Zonotrichia albicollis
Orchard Oriole 52
Icterus spurius
Baltimore Oriole 5
Icterus galbula
Eastern Towhee 5
Pipilo erythrophthalmus
Eastern Meadowlark 5
Sturnella magna
Western Meadowlark
Sturnella neglecta
Boat-tailed Grackle 53
Quiscalus major
Common Grackle 54
Quiscalus quiscula
Great-tailed Grackle 1
Quiscalus mexicanus
Yellow-throated Warbler 55
Dendroica dominica
Common Yellowthroat 5
Geothlypis trichas
Evening Grosbeak 28
Coccothraustes vespertinus
Bachman's Warbler
Vermivora bachmanii
Golden-winged Warbler 15
Vermivora chrysoptera
Summer Tanager 56
Piranga rubra
Scarlet Tanager 15
Piranga olivacea
Savannah Sparrow 1
Passerculus sandwichensis
Dark-eyed Junco 46
Junco hyemalis
Le Conte's Sparrow
Ammodramus leconteii
Henslow's Sparrow 57
Ammodramus henslowii
Nelson's Sparrow 58
Ammodramus nelsoni
Grasshopper Sparrow
Ammodramus savannarum
Seaside Sparrow 40
Ammodramus maritimus
Vesper Sparrow 15
Pooecetes gramineus
Painted Bunting 59
Passerina ciris

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