Silver Lake Township Species Inventory
The Biodiversity Assessment Project is a joint venture between the E.L. Rose Conservancy and Cornell University. Its purpose is to catalog bird, reptile, and amphibian species which occur in the Silver Lake township and surrounding areas.
The species lists were compiled by Vanessa R. Lane, an E.L. Rose Conservancy Intern, under the guidance of Dr. Charles Smith of Cornell University and Patty Bloomer, the President of the Conservancy Board.
Reptiles
We have been able to find 8 reptile species and 14 amphibian species so far. Additional surveys will be performed in the spring of 2003.
Below is the cumulative list of species seen in this township.
| Red-spotted Newt Spotted Salamander Northern Dusky Salamander Mountain Dusky Salamander Northern Two-lined Salamander Redback Salamander Northern Slimy Salamander Northern Spring Salamander Eastern American Toad Spring Peeper Gray Tree Frog |
Pickerel Frog Bull Frog Green Frog Painted Turtle Common Snapping Turtle Northern Ringneck Snake Eastern Milk Snake Northern Water Snake Smooth Green Snake Northern Redbelly Snake Eastern Garter Snake |
Birds
The Silver Lake Township contains a rich variety of birds, probably due to the many different types of habitat that are available. So far 109 species of birds have been recorded for the township, and 55 species have been confirmed to breed here. As more data are gathered, the number of confirmed breeding species will likely increase. Below is the cumulative list of species observed within the Township. Confirmed bird species are marked with a "C," Probable is "Pr," and Possible is "Po."
| Common Loon Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Ruffed Grouse Wild Turkey Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper American Woodcock Ring-billed Gull Rock Dove Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Eastern Screech Owl Barred Owl Great Horned Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee Least Flycatcher Eastern Pheobe Great-crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo American Crow Blue Jay Common Raven Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch |
Po |
Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Prarie Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Field Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow |
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Butterflies
Although assessing butterfly species was not an original goal of the Biodiversity Assessment Project, enough people have expressed interest in local butterflies as to warrant an exploration of local species.
| Tiger Swallowtail Great Spangled Fritillary Aphrodite Fritillary Common Wood Nymph Cabbage White Northern Pearly Eye Monarch Mourning Cloak White Admiral Banded Purple Red-spotted Purple Little Wood Satyr Pearl Crescent Viceroy Milbert's Tortoise Shell |
Clouded Sulfur Orange Sulfur Hobomok Skipper Dun Skipper Silver-spotted Skipper Long dash Skipper Peck's Skipper Common Checkered Skipper Little Glassywing Skipper Least Skipper Spring Azure (summer form) Question Mark American Copper Ringlet |
Created 18 June 2002 by Vanessa Lane.
