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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