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APPENDICES<br />

APPENDIX E<br />

Rare <strong>Plan</strong>ts and Animals Occurring within the Arroyo Colorado <strong>Watershed</strong><br />

Table heading abbreviations: TOES - Texas Organization for Endangered Species; TPWD - Texas Parks<br />

and Wildlife Department; and USFWS - United States Fish and Wildlife Service.<br />

Conservation Status Key: E – Endangered; T – Threatened; PE – Proposed Endangered; PT – Proposed<br />

Threatened; C1 – Candidate for listing for which substantial supporting information exists; C2 – Candidate<br />

for listing for which substantial supporting information does not exist; C3 – Once candidate for listing, but is<br />

no longer; WL – Watch List; DL – De-listed; EX – Extirpated; “Blank” – rare, but no regulatory listing status.<br />

Common Name Scientific Name Conservation Status<br />

Birds TOES TPWD USFWS<br />

Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis E E E<br />

Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens T C2<br />

Wood Stork Mycteria americana T T<br />

White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi T T C2<br />

Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata WL<br />

Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor T<br />

Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus C2<br />

Masked Duck Oxyura dominica WL<br />

Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos WL<br />

White-tailed Hawk Buteo albicaudatus T T<br />

Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus T<br />

Gray Hawk Buteo nitidus T T C2<br />

Northern Gray Hawk Buteo nitidus maximus T T C2<br />

Common Black-Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus T T<br />

Hook-billed Kite<br />

Chondrohierax uncinatus<br />

American Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forfi catus T T<br />

Merlin Falco columbarius T<br />

Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis E E E<br />

American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum E E DL<br />

Arctic Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus tundrius T T DL<br />

Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus E E E/PT<br />

Attwater’s Greater<br />

Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus cupido attwateri E E E<br />

Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus C3<br />

Piping Plover Charadrius melodus T T T<br />

Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa T<br />

Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis E E E<br />

Black Skimmer Rynchops niger T<br />

Coastal Least Tern Sterna antillarum antillarum T<br />

Interior Least Tern Sterna antillarum athalassos E E E<br />

Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata WL T Common<br />

Arroyo Colorado <strong>Watershed</strong> <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> 174 January 2007

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