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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.
The Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Species is reviewed about every five years by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (ESPB). [1] To date it has evaluated only plants and animals of the US state of Illinois, not fungi, algae, or other forms of life; species that occur in Illinois which are listed as endangered or threatened by the U.S. federal government under the ...
As of November 1, 2009, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service listed approximately 1,200 animals as endangered or threatened in North America.. Note: This list is intended only for species listed as endangered under the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, not species listed as endangered by other countries or agencies such as the ...
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.
Eastern kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) Great egret ; Greater prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) Hairy woodpecker (Picoides villosus) Horned lark (Eremophila alpestris) Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) Lark sparrow (Chondestes grammacus)
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]
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 ]
Historic (and modern) loss of habitat, as well as overharvesting, has affected some native mammals to the point of extirpation, including the bison (disappeared in the mid-1800s; the last bison was reported in southwest Minnesota in 1879; [5] a non-wild population exists in Blue Mounds State Park [6]), cougar (though vagrant individuals are ...