Delaware Private Lands Assistance Program

Birds

• Brown Creeper^BR (Certhia americana)

  Brown Creeper

  Barking Treefrog

  Cooper's Hawk

  Delmarva Fox Squirrel

  Frosted Elfin

• Bald Eagle^T (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
• Pied-billed Grebe^BR (Podilymbus podiceps)
• Northern Harrier^BR (Circus cyaneus)
• Cooper’s Hawk^BR (Accipiter cooperii)
• Black-Crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
• Yellow-Crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
• Northern Parula^BR (Parula americana)
• Piping PloverT (Charadrius melodus)
• Short-eared Owl^BR (Asio flammeus)                                                                       
• American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus)
• Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis)
• Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
• Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)
• Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)   
• Henslow's Sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii)
• Common Tern^BR (Sterna hirundo)
• Forster’s Tern^BR (Sterna forsteri)
• Least Tern (Sterna antillarum)
• Cerulean Warbler (Dendroica cerulea)
• Hooded Warbler^BR (Wilsonia citrina)
• Swainson’s Warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii)
• Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus)
• Sedge Wren (Cistothorus platensis)

Reptiles

• Leatherback Sea Turtle^E (Dermochelys coriacea)
• Atlantic Ridley Sea Turtle^E (Lepidochelys kempii)
• Green Sea Turtle^T (Chelonia mydas)
• Loggerhead Sea Turtle^T (Caretta caretta)
• Bog Turtle^T (Clemmys muhlenbergii)
• Corn Snake (Elaphe guttata guttata)

Amphibians

• Eastern Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum)
• Barking Treefrog (Hyla gratiosa)

Mammals

• Delmarva Fox Squirrel ^E (Sciurus niger cinereus)

Fish

• Atlantic Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus)

Mollusks

• Yellow Lampmussel (Lampsilis cariosa)
• Eastern Lampmussel (Lampsilis radiata)
• Dwarf Wedgemussel^E (Alasmidonta heterodon)
• Eastern Pondmussel (Ligumia nasuta)
• Brook Floater (Alasmidonta varicosa)
• Tidewater Mucket (Leptodea ochracea)

Insects

• Little White Tiger Beetle (Cicindela lepida)
• White Tiger Beetle (Cicindela dorsalis)
• Seth Forest Scavenger Beetle (Hydrochus sp.)
• Frosted Elfin (Incisalia irus)
• Bethany Firefly (Photuris bethaniensis)
• Hessel’s Hairstreak (Mitoura hesseli)
• King’s Hairstreak (Satyrium kingi)
• Rare Skipper (Problema bulenta)
• Mulberry Wing (Poanes massasoit chermocki)

  BR Breeding population only
  T Federally listed Threatened Species
  E Federally listed Endangered Species

(Effective as of June 2000)