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Endangered Species Act, 2007
ONTARIO REGULATION 230/08
species at risk in ontario list
Consolidation Period: From June 15, 2016 to the e-Laws currency date.
Last amendment: O. Reg. 200/16.
This is the English version of a bilingual regulation.
Extirpated species
1. The species listed in Columns 3 and 4 of Schedule 1 according to their common and scientific names, and belonging to the species grouping referred to in Column 2 opposite the listed species, are classified by COSSARO as extirpated species. O. Reg. 139/14, s. 1.
Endangered species
2. The species listed in Columns 3 and 4 of Schedule 2 according to their common and scientific names, and belonging to the species grouping referred to in Column 2 opposite the listed species, are classified by COSSARO as endangered species. O. Reg. 139/14, s. 1.
Threatened species
3. The species listed in Columns 3 and 4 of Schedule 3 according to their common and scientific names, and belonging to the species grouping referred to in Column 2 opposite the listed species, are classified by COSSARO as threatened species. O. Reg. 139/14, s. 1.
Special concern species
4. The species listed in Columns 3 and 4 of Schedule 4 according to their common and scientific names, and belonging to the species grouping referred to in Column 2 opposite the listed species, are classified by COSSARO as special concern species. O. Reg. 139/14, s. 1.
Geographical limitations
5. If the classification of a species applies only to a specified geographic area in Ontario, the area is described in a footnote to the relevant Schedule. O. Reg. 230/08, s. 5.
6. Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of this Regulation). O. Reg. 230/08, s. 6.
SCHEDULE 1
Extirpated species
Column 1
Item
|
Column 2
Species Grouping
|
Column 3
Common Name
|
Column 4
Scientific Name
|
1.
|
Mosses
|
Incurved Grizzled Moss
|
Ptychomitrium incurvum
|
2.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Illinois Tick-trefoil
|
Desmodium illinoense
|
3.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Spring Blue-eyed Mary
|
Collinsia verna
|
4.
|
Insects
|
American Burying Beetle
|
Nicrophorus americanus
|
5.
|
Insects
|
Eastern Persius Duskywing
|
Erynnis persius persius
|
6.
|
Insects
|
Frosted Elfin
|
Callophrys irus
|
7.
|
Insects
|
Karner Blue
|
Lycaeides melissa samuelis
|
8.
|
Fishes
|
Gravel Chub
|
Erimystax x-punctatus
|
9.
|
Fishes
|
Paddlefish
|
Polyodon spathula
|
10.
|
Amphibians
|
Blanchard’s Cricket Frog
|
Acris blanchardi
|
11.
|
Amphibians
|
Eastern Tiger Salamander
|
Ambystoma tigrinum
|
12.
|
Amphibians
|
Spring Salamander
|
Gyrinophilus porphyriticus
|
13.
|
Reptiles
|
Eastern Box Turtle
|
Terrapene carolina
|
14.
|
Reptiles
|
Timber Rattlesnake
|
Crotalus horridus
|
15.
|
Birds
|
Eskimo Curlew
|
Numenius borealis
|
16.
|
Birds
|
Greater Prairie-Chicken
|
Tympanuchus cupido
|
O. Reg. 200/16, s. 1.
SCHEDULE 2
Endangered species
Column 1
Item
|
Column 2
Species Grouping
|
Column 3
Common Name
|
Column 4
Scientific Name
|
1.
|
Lichens
|
Pale-bellied Frost Lichen
|
Physconia subpallida
|
2.
|
Mosses
|
Spoon-leaved Moss
|
Bryoandersonia illecebra
|
3.
|
Vascular Plants
|
American Chestnut
|
Castanea dentata
|
4.
|
Vascular Plants
|
American Columbo
|
Frasera caroliniensis
|
5.
|
Vascular Plants
|
American Ginseng
|
Panax quinquefolius
|
6.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Bent Spike-rush
|
Eleocharis geniculata
|
7.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Bird’s-foot Violet
|
Viola pedata
|
8.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Bluehearts
|
Buchnera americana
|
9.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Blunt-lobed Woodsia
|
Woodsia obtusa
|
10.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Butternut
|
Juglans cinerea
|
11.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Cherry Birch
|
Betula lenta
|
12.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Cucumber Tree
|
Magnolia acuminata
|
13.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Drooping Trillium
|
Trillium flexipes
|
14.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Eastern Flowering Dogwood
|
Cornus florida
|
15.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Eastern Prairie Fringed-orchid
|
Platanthera leucophaea
|
16.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus
|
Opuntia humifusa
|
17.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Engelmann’s Quillwort
|
Isoetes engelmannii
|
18.
|
Vascular Plants
|
False Hop Sedge
|
Carex lupuliformis
|
19.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Few-flowered Club-rush
|
Trichophorum planifolium
|
20.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Forked Three-awned Grass
|
Aristida basiramea
|
21.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Four-leaved Milkweed
|
Asclepias quadrifolia
|
22.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Gattinger’s Agalinis
|
Agalinis gattingeri
|
23.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Heart-leaved Plantain
|
Plantago cordata
|
24.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Hoary Mountain-mint
|
Pycnanthemum incanum
|
25.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Horsetail Spike-rush
|
Eleocharis equisetoides
|
26.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Juniper Sedge
|
Carex juniperorum
|
27.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Large Whorled Pogonia
|
Isotria verticillata
|
28
|
Vascular Plants
|
Lowland Toothcup
|
Rotala ramosior
|
29.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Nodding Pogonia
|
Triphora trianthophoros
|
30.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Ogden’s Pondweed
|
Potamogeton ogdenii
|
31.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Pink Milkwort
|
Polygala incarnata
|
32.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Red Mulberry
|
Morus rubra
|
33.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Scarlet Ammannia
|
Ammannia robusta
|
34.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Showy Goldenrod (Great Lakes Plains population)
|
Solidago speciosa
|
35.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Skinner’s Agalinis
|
Agalinis skinneriana
|
36.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Slender Bush-clover
|
Lespedeza virginica
|
37.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Small White Lady’s-slipper
|
Cypripedium candidum
|
38.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Small Whorled Pogonia
|
Isotria medeoloides
|
39.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Spotted Wintergreen
|
Chimaphila maculata
|
40.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Virginia Goat’s-rue
|
Tephrosia virginiana
|
41.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Virginia Mallow
|
Sida hermaphrodita
|
42.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Western Silvery Aster
|
Symphyotrichum sericeum
|
43.
|
Vascular Plants
|
White Prairie Gentian
|
Gentiana alba
|
44.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Wood-poppy
|
Stylophorum diphyllum
|
45.
|
Molluscs
|
Broad-banded Forestsnail
|
Allogona profunda
|
46.
|
Molluscs
|
Eastern Pondmussel
|
Ligumia nasuta
|
47.
|
Molluscs
|
Fawnsfoot
|
Truncilla donaciformis
|
48.
|
Molluscs
|
Hickorynut
|
Obovaria olivaria
|
49.
|
Molluscs
|
Kidneyshell
|
Ptychobranchus fasciolaris
|
50.
|
Molluscs
|
Northern Riffleshell
|
Epioblasma torulosa rangiana
|
51.
|
Molluscs
|
Proud Globelet
|
Patera pennsylvanica
|
52.
|
Molluscs
|
Rayed Bean
|
Villosa fabalis
|
53.
|
Molluscs
|
Round Hickorynut
|
Obovaria subrotunda
|
54.
|
Molluscs
|
Round Pigtoe
|
Pleurobema sintoxia
|
55.
|
Molluscs
|
Salamander Mussel
|
Simpsonaias ambigua
|
56.
|
Molluscs
|
Snuffbox
|
Epioblasma triquetra
|
57.
|
Insects
|
Aweme Borer Moth
|
Papaipema aweme
|
58.
|
Insects
|
Bogbean Buckmoth
|
Hemileuca sp.
|
59.
|
Insects
|
Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble Bee
|
Bombus bohemicus
|
60.
|
Insects
|
Hine’s Emerald
|
Somatochlora hineana
|
61.
|
Insects
|
Hungerford’s Crawling Water Beetle
|
Brychius hungerfordi
|
62.
|
Insects
|
Laura’s Clubtail
|
Stylurus laurae
|
63.
|
Insects
|
Mottled Duskywing
|
Erynnis martialis
|
64.
|
Insects
|
Northern Barrens Tiger Beetle
|
Cicindela patruela
|
65.
|
Insects
|
Pygmy Snaketail
|
Ophiogomphus howei
|
66.
|
Insects
|
Rapids Clubtail
|
Gomphus quadricolor
|
67.
|
Insects
|
Riverine Clubtail
|
Stylurus amnicola
|
68.
|
Insects
|
Rusty-patched Bumble Bee
|
Bombus affinis
|
69.
|
Fishes
|
American Eel
|
Anguilla rostrata
|
70.
|
Fishes
|
Eastern Sand Darter
|
Ammocrypta pellucida
|
71.
|
Fishes
|
Northern Madtom
|
Noturus stigmosus
|
72.
|
Fishes
|
Redside Dace
|
Clinostomus elongatus
|
73.
|
Fishes
|
Shortnose Cisco
|
Coregonus reighardi
|
74.
|
Fishes
|
Warmouth
|
Lepomis gulosus
|
75.
|
Amphibians
|
Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander
|
Desmognathus ochrophaeus
|
76.
|
Amphibians
|
Fowler’s Toad
|
Anaxyrus fowleri
|
77.
|
Amphibians
|
Jefferson Salamander
|
Ambystoma jeffersonianum
|
78.
|
Amphibians
|
Northern Dusky Salamander
|
Desmognathus fuscus
|
79.
|
Amphibians
|
Small-mouthed Salamander
|
Ambystoma texanum
|
80.
|
Reptiles
|
Blue Racer
|
Coluber constrictor foxii
|
81.
|
Reptiles
|
Butler’s Gartersnake
|
Thamnophis butleri
|
82.
|
Reptiles
|
Common Five-lined Skink (Carolinian population)
|
Plestiodon fasciatus
|
83.
|
Reptiles
|
Eastern Foxsnake (Carolinian population)
|
Pantherophis gloydi
|
84.
|
Reptiles
|
Gray Ratsnake (Carolinian population)
|
Pantherophis spiloides
|
85.
|
Reptiles
|
Lake Erie Watersnake
|
Nerodia sipedon insularum
|
86.
|
Reptiles
|
Massasauga (Carolinian population)
|
Sistrurus catenatus
|
87.
|
Reptiles
|
Queensnake
|
Regina septemvittata
|
88.
|
Reptiles
|
Spotted Turtle
|
Clemmys guttata
|
89.
|
Reptiles
|
Wood Turtle
|
Glyptemys insculpta
|
90.
|
Birds
|
Acadian Flycatcher
|
Empidonax virescens
|
91.
|
Birds
|
Barn Owl
|
Tyto alba
|
92.
|
Birds
|
Golden Eagle
|
Aquila chrysaetos
|
93.
|
Birds
|
Henslow’s Sparrow
|
Ammodramus henslowii
|
94.
|
Birds
|
King Rail
|
Rallus elegans
|
95.
|
Birds
|
Kirtland’s Warbler
|
Setophaga kirtlandii
|
96.
|
Birds
|
Loggerhead Shrike
|
Lanius ludovicianus
|
97.
|
Birds
|
Northern Bobwhite
|
Colinus virginianus
|
98.
|
Birds
|
Piping Plover
|
Charadrius melodus
|
99.
|
Birds
|
Prothonotary Warbler
|
Protonotaria citrea
|
100.
|
Birds
|
Red Knot rufa subspecies
|
Calidris canutus rufa
|
101.
|
Birds
|
Yellow-breasted Chat
|
Icteria virens
|
102.
|
Mammals
|
American Badger (Northwestern Ontario population)
|
Taxidea taxus taxus
|
103.
|
Mammals
|
American Badger (Southwestern Ontario population)
|
Taxidea taxus jacksoni
|
104.
|
Mammals
|
Eastern Small-footed Myotis
|
Myotis leibii
|
105.
|
Mammals
|
Little Brown Myotis
|
Myotis lucifugus
|
106.
|
Mammals
|
Mountain Lion or Cougar
|
Puma concolor
|
107.
|
Mammals
|
Northern Myotis
|
Myotis septentrionalis
|
108.
|
Mammals
|
Tri-colored Bat
|
Perimyotis subflavus
|
O. Reg. 200/16, s. 1.
SCHEDULE 3
threatened species
Column 1
Item
|
Column 2
Species Grouping
|
Column 3
Common Name
|
Column 4
Scientific Name
|
1.
|
Vascular Plants
|
American Water-willow
|
Justicia americana
|
2.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Blue Ash
|
Fraxinus quadrangulata
|
3.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Branched Bartonia
|
Bartonia paniculata
|
4.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Colicroot
|
Aletris farinosa
|
5.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Common Hoptree
|
Ptelea trifoliata
|
6.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Deerberry
|
Vaccinium stamineum
|
7.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Dense Blazing Star
|
Liatris spicata
|
8.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Dwarf Hackberry
|
Celtis tenuifolia
|
9.
|
Vascular Plants
|
False Rue-anemone
|
Enemion biternatum
|
10.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Goldenseal
|
Hydrastis canadensis
|
11.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Hill’s Thistle
|
Cirsium hillii
|
12.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Houghton’s Goldenrod
|
Solidago houghtonii
|
13.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Kentucky Coffee-tree
|
Gymnocladus dioicus
|
14.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Lakeside Daisy
|
Tetraneuris herbacea
|
15.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Pitcher’s Thistle
|
Cirsium pitcheri
|
16.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Purple Twayblade
|
Liparis liliifolia
|
17.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Round-leaved Greenbrier
|
Smilax rotundifolia
|
18.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Showy Goldenrod (Boreal population)
|
Solidago speciosa
|
19.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Small-flowered Lipocarpha
|
Lipocarpha micrantha
|
20.
|
Vascular Plants
|
White Wood Aster
|
Eurybia divaricata
|
21.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Wild Hyacinth
|
Camassia scilloides
|
22.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Willowleaf Aster
|
Symphyotrichum praealtum
|
23.
|
Molluscs
|
Lilliput
|
Taxolasma parvum
|
24.
|
Molluscs
|
Mapleleaf Mussel
|
Quadrula quadrula
|
25.
|
Molluscs
|
Rainbow Mussel
|
Villosa iris
|
26.
|
Molluscs
|
Threehorn Wartyback
|
Obliquaria reflexa
|
27.
|
Molluscs
|
Wavy-rayed Lampmussel
|
Lampsilis fasciola
|
28.
|
Fishes
|
Black Redhorse
|
Moxostoma duquesnei
|
29.
|
Fishes
|
Channel Darter
|
Percina copelandi
|
30.
|
Fishes
|
Cutlip Minnow
|
Exoglossum maxillingua
|
31.
|
Fishes
|
Lake Chubsucker
|
Erimyzon sucetta
|
32.
|
Fishes
|
Lake Sturgeon (Great Lakes - Upper St. Lawrence River population)
|
Acipenser fulvescens
|
33.
|
Fishes
|
Lake Sturgeon (Northwestern Ontario population)
|
Acipenser fulvescens
|
34.
|
Fishes
|
Pugnose Minnow
|
Opsopoeodus emiliae
|
35.
|
Fishes
|
Pugnose Shiner
|
Notropis anogenus
|
36.
|
Fishes
|
Shortjaw Cisco
|
Coregonus zenithicus
|
37.
|
Fishes
|
Silver Chub
|
Macrhybopsis storeriana
|
38.
|
Fishes
|
Silver Shiner
|
Notropis photogenis
|
39.
|
Fishes
|
Spotted Gar
|
Lepisosteus oculatus
|
40.
|
Reptiles
|
Blanding’s Turtle
|
Emydoidea blandingii
|
41.
|
Reptiles
|
Eastern Foxsnake (Georgian Bay population)
|
Pantherophis gloydi
|
42.
|
Reptiles
|
Eastern Hog-nosed Snake
|
Heterodon platirhinos
|
43.
|
Reptiles
|
Gray Ratsnake (Frontenac Axis population)
|
Pantherophis spiloides
|
44.
|
Reptiles
|
Massasauga (Great Lakes - St. Lawrence population)
|
Sistrurus catenatus
|
45.
|
Reptiles
|
Spiny Softshell
|
Apalone spinifera
|
46.
|
Birds
|
American White Pelican
|
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
|
47.
|
Birds
|
Bank Swallow
|
Riparia riparia
|
48.
|
Birds
|
Barn Swallow
|
Hirundo rustica
|
49.
|
Birds
|
Bobolink
|
Dolichonyx oryzivorus
|
50.
|
Birds
|
Cerulean Warbler
|
Setophaga cerulea
|
51.
|
Birds
|
Chimney Swift
|
Chaetura pelagica
|
52.
|
Birds
|
Eastern Meadowlark
|
Sturnella magna
|
53.
|
Birds
|
Eastern Whip-poor-will
|
Antrostomus vociferus
|
54.
|
Birds
|
Least Bittern
|
Ixobrychus exilis
|
55.
|
Mammals
|
Algonquin Wolf
|
Canis sp.
|
56.
|
Mammals
|
Caribou (Boreal population)
|
Rangifer tarandus
|
57.
|
Mammals
|
Grey Fox
|
Urocyon cinereoargenteus
|
58.
|
Mammals
|
Polar Bear
|
Ursus maritimus
|
59.
|
Mammals
|
Wolverine
|
Gulo gulo
|
O. Reg. 200/16, s. 1.
SCHEDULE 4
special concern species
Column 1
Item
|
Column 2
Species Grouping
|
Column 3
Common Name
|
Column 4
Scientific Name
|
1.
|
Mosses
|
Pygmy Pocket Moss
|
Fissidens exilis
|
2.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Broad Beech Fern
|
Phegopteris hexagonoptera
|
3.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Climbing Prairie Rose
|
Rosa setigera
|
4.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Crooked-stem Aster
|
Symphyotrichum prenanthoides
|
5.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Dwarf Lake Iris
|
Iris lacustris
|
6.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Green Dragon
|
Arisaema dracontium
|
7.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Hart’s-tongue Fern
|
Asplenium scolopendrium
|
8.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Hill’s Pondweed
|
Potamogeton hillii
|
9.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Riddell’s Goldenrod
|
Solidago riddellii
|
10.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Shumard Oak
|
Quercus shumardii
|
11.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Swamp Rose-mallow
|
Hibiscus moscheutos
|
12.
|
Vascular Plants
|
Tuberous Indian-plantain
|
Arnoglossum plantagineum
|
13.
|
Insects
|
Monarch
|
Danaus plexippus
|
14.
|
Insects
|
West Virginia White
|
Pieris virginiensis
|
15.
|
Insects
|
Yellow-banded Bumble Bee
|
Bombus terricola
|
16.
|
Fishes
|
Blackstripe Topminnow
|
Fundulus notatus
|
17.
|
Fishes
|
Bridle Shiner
|
Notropis bifrenatus
|
18.
|
Fishes
|
Grass Pickerel
|
Esox americanus vermiculatus
|
19.
|
Fishes
|
Lake Sturgeon (Southern Hudson Bay - James Bay population)
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Acipenser fulvescens
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20.
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Fishes
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Northern Brook Lamprey
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Ichthyomyzon fossor
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21.
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Fishes
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River Redhorse
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Moxostoma carinatum
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22.
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Fishes
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Silver Lamprey (Great Lakes - Upper St. Lawrence River population)
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Ichthyomyzon unicuspis
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23.
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Fishes
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Spotted Sucker
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Minytrema melanops
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24.
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Fishes
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Upper Great Lakes Kiyi
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Coregonus kiyi kiyi
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25.
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Reptiles
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Common Five-lined Skink (Southern Shield population)
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Plestiodon fasciatus
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26.
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Reptiles
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Eastern Musk Turtle
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Sternotherus odoratus
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27.
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Reptiles
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Eastern Ribbonsnake
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Thamnophis sauritus
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28.
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Reptiles
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Northern Map Turtle
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Graptemys geographica
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29.
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Reptiles
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Snapping Turtle
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Chelydra serpentina
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30.
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Birds
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Bald Eagle
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Haliaeetus leucocephalus
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31.
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Birds
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Black Tern
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Chlidonias niger
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32.
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Birds
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Canada Warbler
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Cardellina canadensis
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33.
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Birds
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Common Nighthawk
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Chordeiles minor
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34.
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Birds
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Eastern Wood-Pewee
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Contopus virens
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35.
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Birds
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Golden-winged Warbler
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Vermivora chrysoptera
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36.
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Birds
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Grasshopper Sparrow
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Ammodramus savannarum
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37.
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Birds
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Horned Grebe
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Podiceps auritus
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38.
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Birds
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Louisiana Waterthrush
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Parkesia motacilla
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39.
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Birds
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Olive-sided Flycatcher
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Contopus cooperi
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40.
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Birds
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Peregrine Falcon
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Falco peregrinus
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41.
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Birds
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Red-headed Woodpecker
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Melanerpes erythrocephalus
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42.
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Birds
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Red-necked Phalarope
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Phalaropus lobatus
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43.
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Birds
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Short-eared Owl
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Asio flammeus
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44.
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Birds
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Wood Thrush
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Hylocichla mustelina
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45.
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Birds
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Yellow Rail
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Coturnicops noveboracensis
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46.
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Mammals
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Beluga
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Delphinapterus leucas
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47.
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Mammals
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Eastern Mole
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Scalopus aquaticus
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48.
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Mammals
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Woodland Vole
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Microtus pinetorum
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O. Reg. 200/16, s. 1.
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