Rare Plants and Animals: 



GOMIVDN NAME 

 Glossy Ibis 



VJhite Ibis 



Black Duck 



Gsprey 



Marsh Hawk 



Black Rail 

 Laughing Gull 

 Gull-billed Tern 

 Common Tern 

 Least Tern 

 Black Skimmer 

 Barn Owl 

 Purple Martin 

 American Alligator 

 * Black-necked Stilt 



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SGIENTIFIG NAME 

 Plegadis falcinellus 



Guara alba 



Anas rubripes 



Pandion haliaetus 



Circus cyanus hudsonius 



STATUS 



Special concern 



Special concern 



Special concern 



Special concern 



Undetermined (as a 

 breeding species) 



Laterallus jamaicerisis pygmaeus Undetermined 



Larus atricilla 

 Gelochelidon nilotica aranea 

 Sterna hirundo hirundo 

 Sterna albifrons 

 Rhynchops niger 

 Tyto alba pratincola 

 Progne subis subis 

 Alligator inississippiensis 



Special concern 

 Special concern 

 Special concern 

 Special concern 

 Special concern _ 

 Special concern 

 Special concern 

 Endangered ' ■ 

 Nob listed as rare 



Himantopus mexicanus 

 or endangered but is generally uncommon in North Carolina, very local. Rarely 

 nests out of the Etodie Island - Pea Island area. 



Historical Significance: 



The North River marshes have been imown to ornithologists since the turn of 

 the century. It was apparently here, in 1898 » that the eminent ornithologist 

 T. Gilbert Pearson collected the first North Carolina specimen of VJhite Ibis. 

 White Ibises were rare in the state at that time. 



The Van Dooren house was a state oyster experiment station from 1940 to 19A-2, 

 closed because of World War II. Experimental oyster beds were in the marshes. 

 Since then, oyster research has been taken over by the UNC Institute of Marine 

 Sciences, National Marine Fisheries, and N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries (Dr. Al 

 Chestnut, UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, Personal Communication). 



pi-iblications and Scientific References: 



Cooper, John E. (et. al.) (Eds.) 1977. Endangered and Threatened Plants and 

 Animals of North Carolina. N.C. Miseum of Natural History, Raleigh. 



Richer t, Jon E. Sr. 1978. A Guide to North American Bird Clubs. Avian riiblications. 

 Inc. Elizabethtown , Kentucky (Hampton Mariners fliseum bird trips list 

 North River marsh as a popular bird watching spot). 



