FLORA AND FAUNA OF MICHIGAN      AUDUBON'S  OTIS SANCTUARY

PLANTS

Last updated 19 November, 2006

Bottle Gentian

Wild Rice

White-man's foot

Alum root

Sweet Everlasting

Spotted jewelweed

Black-eyed susan

Common mullein

Red pine

Common juniper

Colorado Blue Spruce

American chestnut

Jack-in-the-pulpit

Poison hemlock

Buttonbush

Sesnsitve fern

--- mulberry

Stinging nettle

American elm

Pokeberry

Raspberry

Woodfern

Smilax sp.

Tartarian honeysuckle

Sarafrass

Bracken fern

Virginia creeper

Red oak

Multiflora rose

White oak

May apple

Staghorn sumac

Squaw root

Flowering dogwood

Clearweed

Witch hazel

Virburnum

Wood nettle

Locust (w/o thorns)

Spleenwort

Green ash

Bigtooth aspen

Mint

Everlasting pea

Tall giant sunflower

Ragweed

Burdock

Canada thistle

Gray dogwood

Bottle brush sedge

Swamp beggars tic

Water plantain spearwort

Turtlehead

Meadow sweet

Bebb's willow

Bulb bearing water hemlock

Giant water dock

Blue vervain

Shrubby cinquefoil

Great lobelia

Showy lady slipper

Southern blue flag

Black gum

Virgin's bower

Bur Oak

Tamarack

Elderberry

Honey locust

White birch

Balsam fir

Tiger lily

Apple

Spiderwort

Wisteria

Rose, ornamental

Autumn olive

Lilac

Red cedar

Cottonwood

Dandelion, common

Depthford pink

Interupted fern

Motherwort

Lily of the valley

Poison ivy

Black Cherry

Red mulberry

Garlic mustard

Dames rocket

Black Oak

Black walnut

Curled dock

Joe pye weed

Tall nettle

Horsetail

Red oiser dogwood

Narrow leaved cat tail

Crown vetch

Bladder campion

Yarrow

White avens

Japanese yew

122 Bird Species

Seasonal Abundance

Abundance is the ability of an average wildlife enthusiast to see listed animal in appropriate habitat and season. 

AAbundant:  75% or greater chance of sighting

CCommon: 50-75% chance of sighting

PPresent: 25%-50% chance of sighting

OOccasional: Seen at least once a year during season indicated

RRare: Averages one sighting every two years over a ten year period

XAccidental: Seen at least once in past ten years in season indicated

Endangered, threatened, and species of special concern are in italics. 

Please report sightings of these animals to the Resident Manager. 

Note date, time, and location.

Seasons

S: Spring (Mar-May)F: Fall (Sept-Nov)

Su: Summer (Jun-Aug) W: Winter (Dec-Feb)

   SpSuFW

LOONS

____  Common Loon      R

BITTERNS AND HERONS

____  Great Blue Heron PPPR

____  Green HeronOR

VULTURES

____   Turkey Vulture    OOO

SWANS, GEESE, and DUCKS

____  Trumpeter Swan                  OR

____  Mute Swan    R

____  Tundra (Whistling) Swan    R

____   Canada Goose            CCPO

____  Wood Duck          OOO

____  Mallard         PPPR

____  Blue-winged Teal                 OO

____  Hooded MerganserR

EAGLES, HAWKS, AND FALCONS

____  Northern Harrier                     R           R

____  American Kestrel          R

____  Sharp-shinned Hawk     ROO

____  Cooper's Hawk      OOOO

____  Red-tailed Hawk    CCCO

____  Rough-legged HawkR

____  Golden Eagle      R

____ Broad-winged Hawk     R

TURKEYS, QUAIL, PHEASANT

____  Ruffed Grouse              O

____  Wild Turkey  OOPO

CRANES

____  Sandhill Crane             CCCO

RAILS GALLINULES COOTS

____  SoraR

PLOVERS AND SHOREBIRDS

____  KilldeerO

____  Common Snipe    PO

____   American Woodcock                 PP

_____  Solitary Sandpiper      R

GULLS AND TERNS

____  Ring-billed Gull           RR

PIGEONS, DOVES, CUCKOOS

____  Mourning Dove            AAAA

____  Rock Dove   R

____  Black-billed Cuckooo   R

OWLS

____  Eastern Screech Owl                 OOOR

____  Great Horned Owl               OOOO

____  Barred Owl         OOOO

____  Long-eared Owl    R

NIGHTJARS AND SWIFTS

____  Chimney Swift            OPC

____   Whip-poor-will    O

HUMMINGBIRDS

____  Ruby-throated Hummingbird        OPO

KINGFISHERS

____  Belted Kingfisher CCCR

WOODPECKERS

____  Red-bellied Woodpecker     CCPC

____  Downy Woodpecker    CCCA

____  Hairy Woodpecker      RRRO

____  Northern Flicker PPPR

____  Pileated Woodpecker  OORR

____  Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     R

FLYCATCHERS

____  Least Flycatcher  R

____  Willow Flycatcher O

____  Eastern Phoebe CCC

____  Eastern Wood-PeweePPP

____  Great Crested Flycatcher   PPO

____  Eastern Kingbird        PCP

SWALLOWS

____  Tree Swallow    CCP

____  Barn Swallow    OOO

JAYS AND CROWS

____  Blue Jay    AAAA

____  American Crow  AAAP

TITMICE AND NUTHATCHES

____  Black-capped Chickadee   AAAA

____  Tufted Titmouse APCA

____  White-breasted nuthatch   AAAA

SpSuFW

CREEPERS

____  Brown CreeperRR      R

WRENS

____  House Wren   OCO

____  Carolina Wren OO

____  Marsh Wren    R

KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS

____  Golden-crowned Kinglet  OOP

____  Ruby-crowned Kinglet     O

____  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher    OP

THRUSHES

____  Eastern Bluebird     CPPO

____  Veery                     O       O

____  Wood Thrush  OO

____  American Robin      AAAO

____  Hermit Thrush  R

____ Swainson's Thrush    R

SHRIKES

____  Northern Shrike           RR

MIMICS AND THRASHERS

____  Gray Catbird    OPP

____  Brown ThrasherR

WAXWINGS

____ Cedar WaxwingOORO

STARLINGS

____  European Starling   OOOO

VIREOS

____  Yellow-throated Vireo     O       O 

____  Warbling  Vireo        P

_____ Red-eyed Vireo    ACP

WARBLERS

____  Blackpoll Warbler    R

____  Blue-winged Warbler       P

____  Yellow Warbler        CPP

____  Chestnut-sided Warbler          O        O

____  Black-throated Green Warbler O

____  Ovenbird  O       O

____  Common Yellowthroat             AAP

____   Palm Warbler  O

____  Tennessee Warbler  R

____  Nashville WarblerR

____  Cerulean Warbler     R

____  Hooded WarblerR

_____ American Redstart   R

TANAGERS

____  Scarlet TanagerOO

CARDINALS AND GROSBEAKS

____  Northern Cardinal    AAAA

____  Rose-breasted Grosbeak        PCP

____  Indigo Bunting PCP

SPARROWS

____  Bobolink  R

____  Eastern Towhee      OO

____  American Tree Sparrow   AA

____  Chipping Sparrow    AAA

____  Field Sparrow  OPP

____  Fox SparrowR

____  Savannah Sparrow   R

____  Grasshopper Sparrow     OOO

____  Henslow's Sparrow  O        O

____  Song Sparrow  CAAR

____  Swamp Sparrow      CCC

____  White-throated Sparrow                  OO          R

____  White-crowned Sparrow          OO

____  Dark-eyed Junco     APA

BLACKBIRDS AND ORIOLES

____  Brewer's Blackbird       R

____  Red-winged Blackbird     AAA

____  Common Grackle           OOO        R

____  Brown-headed Cowbird           CCC

____  Northern Oriole               CC

____  Orchard Oriole R

FINCHES

____  House Finch   PPPP

____  Purple FinchR        P

____  Common Redpoll                  R

____  American Goldfinch        AAAA

____  Pine Siskin     RRO

MAMMALS