CHECKLIST
OSSABAW ISLAND 6/7/02 ; 3/21/03; 6/12/03; 3/19/04; 6/4/04
Whitey Hitchcock, Ph.D.
Birds . . Other Vertebrates . . . Plants . . Algae & Lichens . . .  Mushrooms . . . Molluscks, Crustaceans, Echinoberms . . . . . .Insects & Spiders
 

Birds
 
Woods & Edges 
Yellow-rumped warbler
Yellow-Throated Warbler
Common yellowthroat
Northern parula warbler
Pine Warbler
Painted Bunting
Eastern Bluebird
Great Crested Flycatcher
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Pewee
Blue Jay
Summer Tanager 
Swamp sparrow
Chipping sparrow
Brown Thrasher
Mockingbird
Brown-headed cowbird
Cardinal
Carolina Wren
Catbird
Chickadee (black capped)
Tufted Titmouse
Chuck-Wills-Widow Chuck-Wills-Widow (Voice)
Mourning Dove
Night Hawk
Rufous-Sided Towhee 
Sedge Wren (possible)
Redheaded Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Hermit Thrush (voice)
Yellow-bellied sapcucker
Yellow shafted flicker
Eastern Kingbird (pair)
Orchard Oriole (female)
Marsh & Ponds
Common Gallinule
Least Bittern
Clapper Rail
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Wood Stork
Wood duck
Black-crowned Night Heron
Green Heron
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Great blue heron
TriColor (Louisiana) Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Redwing Blackbird
Marsh wren
Lesser yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Shore Birds
Wilson's Plover
Palmated Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Least Tern
Royal Tern
Forster's Tern
Common Tern
Herring Gull
Ringed Gull
Laughing Gull
Black Skimmer
Brown Pelican
Willet
Oystercatcher
Solitary Sandpiper
Sanderling
Piping Plover
Marbled Godwit
Dunlin
Other
Bald Eagle - mature 
Black Vulture
Double Crested Cormorant
Osprey
Red-tailed hawk
Tree Swallow
Turkey vulture

 

Other Veterbrates
 
Snakes and Lizards Other Reptiles & Amphibians Mammals & Others
Diamondback Rattlesnake - Crotalus adamanteus
Easterrn Kingsnake - Lampropeltis getula
Black Racer - Coluber constrictor
Black Rat Snake - Elaphe obsoleta
Scarlet Snake - Cemophora coccinea
Eastern ribbon snake - Thamnophis sauritus
Rough Green Snake - Opheodrys vernalis
Yellow Rat- Elaphe obsoleta  quadrivittata
Green Anole - Anolis carolinensis
Five-Lined Skink - Eumeces fasciatus
Blue-tailed skink - 
Broad-headed skink - Eumeces laticeps
Eastern Glass Lizard -Ophisaurus ventralis
Alligator - Alligator mississippiensis
Southern Toad - Buffo terrestis
Squirrel tree frog - Hyla squirella
Loggerhead (deceased) - Caretta caretta
Common cooter - Pseudemys floridana (tentative ID)
Eastern Mud Turtle - Kinosternon subrubrum
Armadillo - Dasypus novemcinctus
Raccoon - Procyon lotor
White-tailed Deer - Odocoileus virginianus
Fox Squirrel - Sciurus niger
Gray squirrel - Sciurus carolinensis
Feral pig - Sus scrofa
White-tailed deer - Odocoileus virginianus
White-footed mouse - Peromyscus leucopus

Unidentified bat
Unidentidied rat

Plants
 
Trees Shrubs Forbs, Grasses and Others
Cabbage Palmetto - Sabal palmetto
Loblolly Pine - Pinus taeda
Slash Pine - Pinus elliotti
Southern Red Cedar - Juniperus silicicola
Live Oak - Quercus virginiana
Sweetgum - Liquidambar styraciflua
Southern Magnolia -Magnolia grandiflora
Willow - Salix spp.
Hickory - Carya spp
Hophornbeam - Ostrya virginiana
Dogwood - Cornus spp.
Sugarberry (single occurence)
White mulberry (single occurence)
Chinese Tallow Tree - Sapium sebiferum
Prickly Ash* - Zanthoxylum clava-herculis (Hercules-Club)
Yaupon Holly - Ilex vomitoriaalterniflora
Saw Palmetto - Serenoa repens
Wax Myrtle* - Myrica cerifera
Coral Bean - Erythyrina herbacea
Spanish Bayonnet - Yucca baccata
Hydrocotyl
Sea Oxeye - Borrichia frutescens
Wooly Croton - Croton linearis
Horsenettle - Solanum carolinense
Asian Dayflower -
Duckweed - Lemna spp.
Dog Fennel - Eupatorium capifolium
Glasswort - Salicornia perennis
Lizard's Tail - Saururus cernuus
Swamp Milkweed* - Asclepias incarnata
Fine-Leaved White-Top Sedge - Rhynchospora colorata
Sensitive Fern* - Onoclea sensibilis
Marsh Fern - Thelypteris palustris (tentative ID)
Resurrection Fern - Pleopeltis polypodioides
Poison Ivy - Toxidendron radicans
Trumpet vine -Campsis radicans
Spanish Moss* - Tillandsia usneoides
Sandspurs - Cenchrus spp.
Saltmarsh cordgrass - Spartina alterniflora
Meadow Hay -Spartina patens
Black Needlerush - Juncus roemerianus
Sea Oats - Uniola paniculata

 

Algae and Lichens
Reindeer lichen - Cladina spp.
Sea Lettuce - Ulva lactuca
Floating Sargassum - Sargassum fluitans
Christmas lichen - Cryptothecia rubrocincta

Mushrooms
Destroying Angel - Aminita virosa
Sulfur shelf - Laetiporus sulphureus (Chicken of the woods)
Hericium - Hericium corralloides (Lions mane)
Blewit - Lepista nuda
Russula virescens
Yellow chanterelle
Misc. Lactarius and Russula

Raspberry slime mold - Tubifera ferruginosa
Dog Vomit slime mold - Fuligo septica
Physarum - Physarum polycephalum

Mollusks, Crustaceans, & Echoniderms
Channeled Whelk - Busycon canaliculatum
Knobbed Whelk
Sea Whip - Leptogorgia virgulata (yellow & red)
Coral - Astrangia skeleton
Oyster
Stiff Pen shell - Atrina rigida
Barnacles
Common Razor clam - Ensis directus
Rubbery Bryozoan - Alcyonidium hirsutum
Chicken liver sponge -
Black sponge -
Sea Star
Sand Dollar (Key-hole urchin)
Sea Anemone
Cannonball Jellyfish - Stomolophus meleagris
Horseshoe Crab - Limulus polyphemus
Sea Cucumber
Moon Snail
Common slipper snail - Crepidula fornicata
Marsh periwinkle - Littoria irrorata
Lettered Olive Shell - Oliva sayana
Wentletrap -
Atlantic Strawberry Cockle Shell - Americardia media
Common Baby's Ear - Cassis madagascariensis
Angel Wing - Mya arenaria
Surf Clam -
Brackish-water Fiddler Crab - Uca minax
Sand Fiddler Crab - Uca pugilator
Ghost crab - Ocypode quadrata
Wharf crab - Sesarma cinereum
Hermit crab -
Persephone crab -

Insects and Spiders
Spiders
Arctosa littoralis
Lycosidea

Odanata - Dragonlies/Damselflies
 Ebony jewelwing Calopteryx maculata   (Damselfly)
 Carolina saddlebags - Tramea carolina
 Eastern Pondhawk - Erythemis simplicicollis
Blue Dasher - Pachydiplax longipennis
Swamp Darner -Epiaeshna heros
Seaside Dragonlet - Erythrodiplax berenice

Lepidoptera
Moths
   Ornate Tiger moth - Apantesis ornata
   Imperial moth - Eacles imperialis
   Polyphemus moth - Antheraea polyphemus
Butterflies
   Gulf Fritillary - Agraulis vanillae
   Viceroy -Basilarchia archippus
   Red Admiral - Vanessa atalanta
   Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui
   Buckeye - Junonia coenia
   Creole Pearly Eye -Enodia creola
   Gemmed Stayr - Cyllopsis gemma
   Little Wood Stayr - Megisto cymela
   Red-banded Hairstreak -Calycopis cecrops
   Palamedes Swallowtail -Papilio palamedes
   Giant Swallowtail -Papilio cresphontes
   Red-banded Hairstreak - Calycopis cecrops

Coleoptera
Carrion beetle - Siphidae -Silpha americana
Skin or Hide Beetle - Omorgus scabrosus
Ground Beetle - Carabidae
Scarab - Scarabidae
Sand tiger beetles - Cicindelidae - Cicindela dorsalis media
                                       and Cicindela repanda
Click beetles - Elateridae
Long Horn Beetles - Cerambicidae
      Neocyltus acuminatus - Red-headed ash borer

Hymenoptera
Cicada Killer -
Wasp

Diptera
Blowfly

Neuroptera
Antlion -
Green Lacewing - Chrysopa spp.
Lacewing - Notida pavida (camouflaged as a lichen)

Heteroptera
Cicada
Blood sucking cone nose
Stink bug