B-14 



Diamondback rattlesnake Crotalus adamanteus 

 Red tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis 

 Broad winged hawk Buteo platypterus 

 . Bobwhite quail Colinus virginianus 

 Mourning dove Zenaidura macroura 

 Great horned owl Bubo virginianus 

 Yellow shafted flicker Colaptes auratus 

 Hairy woodpecker Dendrocopus villosus 

 Downy woodpecker Dendrocopus pubescens 

 Red cockaded woodpecker Dendrocopus borealis 

 Brown headed nuthatch Sitta pusilla 

 Eastern bluebird Sialia sialis 

 Yellow throated warbler Dendroica dominica 

 Pine warbler Dendroica dominica 

 Pine warbler Dendroica pinus 

 Prairie warbler Dendroica discolor 

 Meadowlark Sturnella magna 

 Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus 

 Pine woods sparrow Aimophila aestivalis 

 Opossum Didelphis marsupialis 

 Eastern cottontail Sylvilagus f loridanus 

 Pine mouse Pitymys pinetorum 

 Gray fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus 

 Raccoon Procyon lotor 

 Bobcat Lynx rufus 

 White tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus 



Critical environmental factors governing the composition 

 of this community include frequency of fire, drainage, and lack of 

 local relief. 



Bottomland Hardwood Forest 



This community type is one of the most diverse terrestrial 

 plant communities in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and is again, best 

 developed in the southern section of that province. It occupies the 

 floodplains of the major rivers, and is closely associated with the 

 cypress-gum swamp forest. 



Behind a natural levee, three types of minor relief occur, 

 low ridges, flats, and sloughs. The presence of a clay pan restricts 

 drainage behind the levee and the flats and sloughs are flooded for 

 varying lengths of time. Cypress-gum swamp forest occupies the 

 sloughs and flats which remain flooded for long periods. The low 

 ridges, however, being a few feet above the normal flood level are 

 inundated only occasionally. Bottomland hardwood forest develops 

 on these ridges and on the higher flats. On older floodplain 

 terraces or second bottoms, this forest community attains its best 

 development (Putnam et. al . , 1960). 



