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The species is found along forest edges, rock piles, and rotting logs or stumps in the eastern United States. It is sometimes referred to as the prairie lizard, fence swift, gray lizard, gravid lizard, northern fence lizard or pine lizard. [4] It is also referred to colloquially as the horn-billed lizard.
Arboreal species are widely found in the region due to the high density of tree cover, providing a suitable habitat and food source for the animals; this includes birds and many ground squirrels. Migratory songbirds are common in the eastern temperate forests once the canopy opens up in the spring.
Platanthera leucophaea, commonly known as the prairie white fringed orchid [6] or eastern prairie fringed orchid, is a rare species of orchid native to North America. It is a federally threatened species, [ 7 ] protected since October 30, 1989 under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 . [ 8 ]
This directly impacts the habitat of these species, and many signature fen species disappear. [4] Fens are also threatened by invasive species, fragmentation, peat cutting, and pollution. [5] Non-native invasive species, such as the common buckthorn in North America, can invade fens and outcompete rare fen species, reducing biodiversity. [5]
Federally threatened plant species: Prairie bush-clover (Lespedeza leptostachya) Mead's milkweed (Asclepias meadii) Northern wild monkshood (Aconitum noveboracense) Eastern prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera leucophaea) Western prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera praeclara) Extinct animal species (historical): [9]
The ecosystem of over 98% of eastern woodland areas such as longleaf pine have declined. [12] Remaining grassy woodland and prairie cover some of the land in the following locations: Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama [8] Old Cahawba Prairie, Alabama [13] Apalachicola National Forest, Florida [8] Garcon Point, Florida [8]
Prairie kingsnakes' preferred habitat is open grassland with loose, dry soil, typically on the edge of a forested region, not far from a permanent source of water. Their diet consists primarily of rodents , but they will also consume lizards , frogs and occasionally other snakes .
Lesser prairie-chicken; Greater prairie-chicken; King rail; Whooping crane; American woodcock; Red-cockaded woodpecker; Red-headed woodpecker; Red-bellied woodpecker; Florida scrub-jay; Fish crow; Tufted titmouse; Carolina chickadee; Brown-headed nuthatch; Brown thrasher; Eastern towhee; Bachman's sparrow; Saltmarsh sparrow; Seaside sparrow ...