Table 2.9. Colonial Nesting Waterbirds of the Galveston Bay System (36). 
Common Name 
Scientific Name 
Common Name 
Scientific Name 
Olivaceous cormorant 
Phalacrocorax 
White ibis 
Eudocimus albus 
olivaceus 
White-faced ibis 
Plegadis chihi 
Anhinga 
Anhinga anhinga 
Roseate spoonbill 
Ajaia ajaja 
Great blue heron 
Ardea herodias 
Laughing gull 
Larus atricilla 
Great egret 
Casmerodias albus 
Gull-billed tern 
Sterna nilotica 
Snowy egret 
Egretta thula 
Caspian tern 
Sterna caspia 
Little blue heron 
Egretta caerulea 
Royal tern 
Sterna maxima 
Tricolored heron 
Egretta tricolor 
Sandwich tern 
Sterna sandvicensis 
Reddish egret 
Egretta rufescens 
Forster's tern 
Sterna forsteri 
Cattle egret 
Bubulcus ibis 
Least tern 
Sterna antillarum 
Black-crowned 
night-heron 
Yellow-crowned 
night-heron 
Nycticorax 
nycticorax 
Nycticorax violaceus 
Black skimmer 
Rynchops niger 
Table 2.10. Game and Furbearing Mammals of the Four Counties Surrounding Galveston 
Bay (41,42). 
Common Name 
White-tailed deer 
Virginia opossum 
Beaver 
Muskrat 
Nutria 
Raccoon 
Ringtail 
Coyote 
Scientific Name 
Odocoileus 
virginianus 
Didelphis 
virginiana 
Castor canadensis 
Ondatra zibethicus 
Myocaster coypus 
Procyon lotor 
Bassariscus astutus 
Canis latrans 
Common Name 
Red fox 
Gray fox 
Long-tailed weasel 
Mink 
Eastern spotted skunk 
Striped skunk 
River otter 
Bobcat 
Scientific Name 
Vulpes vulpes 
Urocyon 
cinereoargenteus 
Mustela frenata 
Mustela vison 
Spilogale putorius 
Mephitis mephitis 
Lutra canadensis 
Felis rufus 
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