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Jim Permberton checks under rocks in ravine. (enlarge)

Northern Water Snakes (enlarge)
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Bio-diversity and Species Listing (Fauna) |
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PV Park is very valuable ecologically
because of its size. Biologists have found that when a wooded area
gets smaller than 100 hectares (247 acres) the probability of finding
certain species of wildlife drops sharply. PV Park is over15 acres
larger than the critical point where bio diversity begins to plummet,
so it could serve as a valuable refuge for certain species of birds.
For that reason alone, it is worth saving and a valuable asset to
the community. Besides serving as a possible wildflower refugia,
it may also be important someday as wildlife corridor. It is another
place to control the deer population and a place for old growth
to develop. It’s terrain is particularly scenic, and like
Duff Park, when the trees mature, could draw tourists. It is worth
keeping, now and even more so in the future.
Species Lists - Fauna
(7/05/07)
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here for printer-friendly version)
Birds |
| American robin |
| American woodcock |
| Baltimore Oriole |
| Barn Swallow |
| Barred Owl |
| Blue Jay |
| Bluebird |
| Blue-winged Warbler |
| Brewster's Warbler |
| Brown thrasher |
| Brown-headed cowbird |
| Cardinal |
| Carolina chickadee |
| Catbird |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Crow |
| Downy woodpecker |
| Eastern phoebe |
| Eastern towhee |
| Ficker |
| Field sparrow |
| Goldfinch |
| Grackle |
| Great Horned Owl |
| Hairy woodpecker |
| Hooded Warbler |
| Indigo Bunting |
| Kentucky Warbler |
| Louisiana waterthrush |
| Mallard Duck |
| Mourning Dove |
| Northern Cardinal |
| Northern Flicker |
| Ovenbird |
| Pileated woodpecker |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker |
| Red-eyed Vireo |
| Red-tailed hawk |
| Robin |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Scarlet Tanager |
| Screech Owl |
| Song Sparrow |
| Starling |
| Tufted Titmouse |
| Turkey |
| Turkey Vulture |
| White-breasted Nuthatch |
| White-crowned Sparrow |
| White-eyed Vireo |
| Willow Flycatcher |
| Wood Thrush |
| Yellow rumped warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
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| Herpetiles |
| Box turtle |
| Bullrog |
| Dusky salamander |
| Garter snake |
| Gray Tree frog |
| Green frog |
| Mountain dusky salamander |
| Northern
ringneck snake |
| Northern
Water Snake |
| Northern banded watersnake |
| Northern two lined salamander |
| Red spotted newt |
| Spotted Salamander |
| Spring Peeper (Audio) |
| Two lined salamander |
| Wood frog tadpoles |
| Wood frog
(Audio) |
Mammals |
| Bat, large brown |
| Bat, small brown |
| Fox squirrel |
| Groundhog |
| Red fox |
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| Fish
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| Black nosed dace |
| Shiner species |
Tracks &
Signs |
| Accipiter nest |
| American toad |
| Baltimore oriole nest |
| Blue jay nest |
| Bobcat tracks |
| Cardinal nest |
| Deer |
| Flying Squirrel nest |
| Gray squirrel |
| Gray squirrel nest |
| Opossum |
| Pileated woodpecker holes |
| Raccoon |
| Red fox |
| Red-eyed Vireo nest |
| Ruffed grouse |
| Sapsucker scars |
| White-footed mouse |
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| Butterflies |
| Compton's tortoise shell |
| Hackberry emperor |
| Juvenal's
duskywing butterfly |
| Least skipper |
| Little
wood Satyr |
| Monarch |
| Mourning cloak butterfly |
| Northern Pearly-eye |
| Question mark |
| Red admiral |
| Spring azure butterfly |
| Tulip tree beauty |
| Wild indigo duskywing |
| Dragonflies
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| Ebony jewelwing |
| 12 spotted skimmer |
| Black saddlebag |
| Spiders |
| Daddy-long-legs (several species) |
| Jumping spider (several species) |
Insects in
General |
| Bee fly |
| Buffalo treehopper (Ceresa spp) |
| Bumblebee |
| Cabbage white butterfly |
| Carpenter bee |
| Click beetle |
| Differential grasshopper |
| Dogbane beetle |
| Goldenrod bunch gall midge |
| Goldenrod gall fly |
| Goldenrod gall moth |
| Grapevine epimenis moth |
| Green shield bug |
| Honeybee |
| Japanese beetle |
| large lace-border moth (Scropula limboundata) |
| Largid bug (species unknown) |
| Preying mantis egg case |
| Seven-spotted ladybug |
| Shield-backed katydid (Atlanicus spp.) |
| Snipefly,
golden-backed |
| Snout-nosed leafhopper (Scolops spp) |
| Spotted cucumber beetle |
| Striped cucumber beetle |
| Sweat bee |
| Two-spotted stinkbug (Perillus bioculatus) |
Aquatic invertebrates
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| Crane fly larva |
| Crayfish |
| Dragonfly larva |
| Mayfly nymph |
| Stonefly larva |
| Water boatman |
| Water striders |
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