ecological characterization atlas of coastal alabama - Data Center

Table
7 . (concluded)
Recommended
status
Species
Habitat
a ssoc . (County)
Plants
Rhamnaceae
T
Segeretia mi nuti fl ora
Sarracaceae
T itc er-p ant, Sarracenia psittacina
T Sweet pitcher-p ant, arracenia ru ra
Theaceae
T -LobToTly bay, Gordonia lasianthus
Ulmaceae
T Momi sia i guanea
X ri a'ceae
T
Ye l low-eyed grass, Xyris drummondii
T Yel l ow-eyed grass , SyrTi s sca ri o i a
Mobile beaches (M)
Wet pine flatwoods (MB)
Wet pine flatwoods (B)
Pocosin borders (MB)
Beach strands (MB)
Acid sandy sites (MB)
Wet pinelands (MB)
aE = Endangered ; T = Threatened .
bM = Mobile ; B = Baldwin .
County (Jim Davis, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources,
Jackson, AL, 11 March 1982 ; pers . comm .) .
Birds
The bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucoce halus, ranges throughout the state as
a migrant, and former y neste in o i e an Baldwin Counties . Although bald
eagles are known to nest in Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, and South
Carolina, they rarely nest elsewhere in the Southeast .
The Arctic peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus tundrius , migrates through
Alabama on its way from the arctic tundra regions to southern South America,
and fairly numerous sightings (perhaps 30 per year) are made on the Fort
Morgan Peninsula (Dennis Jordan, U .S . Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, MS,
11 March 1982 ; pers . comm .) . Some individuals are believed to overwinter
along the Gulf coast and southern Florida . The falcon has been recently
reclassified from endangered to threatened (Federal Register, March 20,
1984) .
Bachman's warbler, Vermivora bachmanii , is extremely rare, if not
extinct . It may pass through Alabama in the spring on its migration from
Cuba to widespread localities in the Southeast .
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