The list

[urbpan]

Here's a complete list of the species in the 365 project, to date:


#001: Northern Mockingbird
#002: Oriental Bittersweet
#003: Canada Goose
#004: Eastern Gray Squirrel
#005: Northern Pintail
#006: Indian Meal Moth
#007: Black-capped Chickadee
#008: Hooded Merganser
#009: Chives
#010: London Planetree
#011: Great Blue Heron
#012: Dark-eyed Junco
#013: Western Conifer Seed Bug
#014: Downy Woodpecker
#015: Wood Duck
#016: Common Redpoll
#017: Bufflehead
#018: Wood Ear
#019: Cellar Spider
#020: Rock Pigeon
#021: Cooper's Hawk
#022: Eastern Hemlock
#023: Mallard
#024: American black duck
#025: Phragmites
#026: Coral Spot
#027: Stereum hirsutum
#028: Weeping Willow
#029: Ring-billed Gull
#030: American Robin
#031: Tufted Titmouse
#032: Paper Birch
#033: Cinquefoil
#034: Lettuce Aphid
#035: Split Gill Fungus
#036: Deer Tick
#037: European Beech
#038: Witch Hazel
#039: Blue Spruce
#040: European Starling
#041: River Birch
#042: Red Tree Brain
#043: White-throated Sparrow
#044: Nothern Cardinal
#045: Red-tailed Hawk
#046: Blue Jay
#047: Cattail
#048: Sawtooth Grain Beetle
#049: Eastern White Pine
#050: American Coot
#051: American Goldfinch
#052: Norway Spruce
#053: American Crow
#054: Little House Fly
#055: House Sparrow
#056: Wild Carrot
#057: Black Knot
#058: Mute Swan
#059: European Black Pine
#060: Domestic Goose
#061: Mourning Dove
#062: Penicillium
#063: Scots Pine
#064: House Finch
#065: Birch Polypore
#066: Herring Gull
#067: House Mouse
#068: Red-bellied Woodpecker
#069: Log Cabin Caddisfly
#070: Red-winged blackbird
#071: Irpex lacteus
#072: Wood sorrel
#074: Pussy Willow
#075: White-breas
#077: Sap Bucket Beetle
#078: Cedar Waxwing
#079: Garden Centipede
#080: Common Grackle
#081: Artist's Conk
#082: Dandelion
#083: Canadian Nightcrawler
#084: Snowdrop
#085: Winter Moth
#086: Raccoon
#087: Flat-backed millipede
#088: Chickweed
#089: Skunk Cabbage
#090: Striped Skunk
#091: Forsythia
#092: Mourning Dove
#094: Brown Creeper
#095: Eastern Phoebe
#096: Wild Turkey
#097: Japanese Andromeda
#098: Woodlouse Spider
#099: Conocybe tenera
#100: Ground Beetle
#101: Saucer Magnolia
#102: Lesser Celandine
#103: Common Blue violet
#104: Oleander
#105: Bananaquit
#106: Lesser Antillean Bullfinch
#107: Green-throated Carib
#108: Anole
#109: Giant Milkweed
#110: Cattle Egret
#111: Gray Kingbird
#112: Domestic Dog
#113: Eastern Subterranean Termite
#114: Big Brown Bat
#115: Mica Cap
#116: Garlic Mustard
#117: Muskrat
#118: Ground Ivy
#119: Shepherd's Purse
#120: Flowering Crabapple
#121: Flowering Dogwood
#122: Early Yellowrocket
#123: Celandine
#124: Silver Maple
#125: Narrowleaf Plantain
#126: Double-crested Cormorant
#127: Yellow-rumped Warbler
#129: Japanese Knotweed
#130: Common Carp
#131: Black-and-white Warbler
#132: Green Bottle Fly
#133: Shaggy Mane
#134: Pineapple Weed
#135: Lambsquarters
#136: Stinging Nettles
#137: Ladybug
#138: Boxelder
#140: Lilac
#141: Star-of-Bethlehem
#142: Crane Fly
#143: Black-crowned Night-heron
#144: English Garden Snail
#145: Daisy Fleabane
#146: American Dog Tick
#147: House Centipede
#148: Baltimore oriole
#149: White Clover
#150: Pumpkinseed
#151: Pond snail
#152: Pill Bug
#153: Creeping Buttercup
#154: Yellow Flag
#155: White Lychnis
#156: Bittersweet Nightshade
#157: Eastern Cottonwood
#158: Wolf's Milk
#159: Carpenter Bee
#160: Black Swallow-wort
#161: Common Mallow
#162: Black Locust
#163: Black Medick
#164: Chimney Swift
#165: Oxeye Daisy
#166: Multiflora Rose
#167: Yarrow
#168: Common Snapping Turtle
#169: Eastern Cottontail
#170: Vetch
#171: Bullfrog
#172: Painted Turtle
#173: Common Milkweed
#174: Pond Slider
#175: Dog Stinkhorn
#176: Eastern Water Lily
#177: St. Johnswort
#178: Eastern Black Raspberry
#179: Amethyst Deceiver
#180: Mock Strawberry
#181: Dead Man's Fingers
#182: Lady's Thumb
#183: Hairy Galinsoga
#184: Chicory
#185: Scarlet Pimpernel
#186: Northern Acorn Barnacle
#187: Irish Moss
#188: European Green Crab
#189: Moon Jelly
#190: Common Tern
#191: European Earwig
#192: Asiatic Dayflower
#193: Dog Vomit
#194: Honeybee
#195: Duckweed
#196: Cabbage White
#197: indian Pipe
#198: Toadflax
#199: Monarch
#200: Purple Loosestrife
#201: Carpenter Ant
#202: Birdsfoot Trefoi
#203: Chicken Mushroom
#204: Blue Dasher
#205: The Sickener
#206: Sowthistle
#207: Daylily
#208: Pigskin Earthball
#209: Purslane
#210: Quince Rust
#211: Dodder
#212: Japanese Beetle
#213: White Wood Aster
#214: Barn Swallow
#215: Fireweed
#216: Glaucous-winged Gull
#217: Banana Slug
#218: Domestic Rabbit
#219: Northwestern Crow
#220: Horsetail
#221: Harbor Seal
#222: California Poppy
#223: Goldenrod
#224: Ragweed
#225: Mugwort
#226: Burdock
#227: Northern Flicker
#228: Carpetweed
#229: Spurge
#230: Leopard Slug
#231: Spotted Sandpiper
#232: Sunflower
#233: Evening Primrose
#234: Cucumbertree
#235: Stag Beetle
#236: Mule Deer
#237: Copperleaf
#238: Black Nightshade
#239: Dryad's Saddle
#240: Stinky Squid
#241: Great Golden Digger Wasp

the next 124 are going to be more difficult (that last week might kill me).

Comments

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Don't kill yourself! But I'm definitely enjoying the urban species round up!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yesterday while looking to see if the local Canada goose family was still around, I spotted some kind of egret. First thing I did on LJ this morning was check to see which egrets & other herons you'd covered in your project! (Since the bird was standing in water, I'm guessing it wasn't a cattle egret. But you'll get to other egrets eventually, right? ;-))

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

What I haven't covered (and may not--because they aren't especially common in Boston) are snowy egrets and great egrets. Both are white herons. The great is almost as large as a great blue heron, with dark legs and feet. The snowy is quite a bit smaller, with dark legs and yellow feet. We also have the green heron, but they are very secretive; its a small dark heron with bright red legs.

In the south is the tricolored or Louisiana heron, which is grayish and reddish with a white throat. There's also the yellow-crowned night-heron, which I've seen in its juvenile stage but never as an adult. You can look at my black-crowned post and imagine it with a striped face and head.

I hope this helps!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I'd already figured it was either a great or snowy egret (wasn't close enough to see detail, and didn't really get much sense of its size as I hurried past), but thanks for the help! This is the first time I've seen any kind of heron in the neighborhood (near but not quite in Washington, DC), so I was pretty pleased to even catch a glimpse of the bird.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's plenty of volunteers in my yard you haven't talked about yet. :->

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Take some pictures and post them, and I'll try to get to them!

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Hee! I have lots of pics already. At some point, I will most definitely be putting up a yearbook/rogue's-gallery of species contained in my yard ...

One of the ones I know I have that I know you've not yet done is mallow (yellow five-petalled flowers, spiky odd round disc seedpods).

If I beat you to it, and there's still things in my yard labelled 'Unknown Species 1, 2, 3," I'll definitely point you at the post. :->

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Or did I?

[cavalaxis]

You're really an inspiration. When I first heard about the 365 project, I thought, "Wow, that's a lot of species. I wonder if he'll have trouble hitting that mark."

Now, when I head out to the desert, or just driving over the Sepulveda Pass, I realize that *limiting* yourself to just 365 species is probably difficult.

It's been a real eye opener for me.

[droserary.livejournal.com]

Next year's project: 365 Urban Genera? ;-)

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

Hehe!

[g-weir.livejournal.com]

Crap... a praying mantis landed on me the ther day in the arboretum. I see you've not covered my favotite insect yet... If only I'd had a camera!

--G

[(Anonymous)]

What a great list and great site. I live more out in the burbs; a retired English teacher, into history research from Thoreau to old cotton mills in the area, windsurfing, gardening, hunting, and gathering (and have the tick bites to prove it -, seven or eight in the last several years.) I have contributed a couple time to the sunflower thread.

I have hardly made a dent in looking at your list, but I notice the cinquefoil. Here's what Thoreau had to say in his journal on yesterday's date in 1851:
I perceive in the Norway Cinquefoil—Potentilla Norvegica—now nearly out of blossom—that the alternate 5 leaves of the calyx are closing over the seeds to protect them. This evidence of forethought, this simple reflection in a double sense of the term, in this flower is affecting to me—as if it said to me Even I am doing my appointed work in this world faithfully. Not even do I however obscurely I may grow among the other loftier & more famous plants—shirk my work—humble weed as I am— Not even when I have blossomed and have lost my painted petals & am preparing to die down to its root do I forget to fall with my arms around my babe—that the infant may be found preserved in the arms of the frozen mother. That thus all the Norway Cinqefoils in the world had curled back their calyx leaves their warm Cloaks, when now their flowering season has past-over their progeny—from the time they were created. There is one door closed, of the closing Year— Nature ordered this bending back of the calyx leaves—& every year since this plant was created her order has been faithfully obeyed.— & this plant acts not an obscure—but essential part in the revolution of the seasons. I am not ashamed to be contemporary with the Norway Cinquefoil May I perform my part as well!—
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Yeah, me too!

Suburban pantheist

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

It would be great to have that divvied into bird/mammal/reptile'n'amphibian/insect/plant/fungi/fish/???.

'Cause I know you're dying for more to do on the project.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I actually considered that, to make the list more usable. Ideally, I'd hotlink every entry, but that ain't gonna happen, not today.

Just a quickie

[almeda.livejournal.com]

I don't see sumac anywhere on your list; here in Chicago it's the quintessential weed tree, springing up in cracks between garage and alley and everywhere else.

Re: Just a quickie

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Sumac is on the long list of plants I'm "saving," since I'm so worried about the end of the year. Also, it looks best in autumn. Look for it in October, probably.

See also: poison ivy, various maples, virginia creeper, gingko, sweetgum, etc etc

Re: Just a quickie

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

But I appreciate the suggestion! In November, after I've gone and done common ivy and Japanese yew and Eastern redcedar, I'm going to be a wreck, and I'll be desperate for more and more suggestions!

Some more species between Ward's and Willow pond for you

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you have these but may be you do. Let me know if you'd like me to show them to you:

Tulip Polar, Liriodendron tulipfera
3-Spined Stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus

Oh and thanks for posting the Dusky Salamander from Ward's, I saw one in the water briefly in the small spring pond by Willow Pond and never I'D'd it, solves a longstanding mystery for me.

Also should be be able to boost your bird list but photos will be challenging, they don't stay still

I'm calling your Pond Slider "Red-eared Slider", they're in Ward's and Leverett Pond.

Winter ducks are just starting to show up so there will be lots of new species in Leverett Pond.

Send email if you'd like a tour for some new species in the above area:
andrew@natureclimber.com

Re: Some more species between Ward's and Willow pond for you

[(Anonymous)]

Forgot to mention, should be able to get Eastern Pond Mussel, Ligumia nasuta with a dip net along the edge of Ward's. There's Redfin pickerel, Esox americanus and Chain Pickerel in Ward's, they hang on the edge on cool days when the sun shines. Also fry Golden Shiner, Notemigonus crysoleucas can be netted. That's about it for random stuff. Ward's has amazing diversity of fish species for such a small pond.

Banded Killifish frequent the edges of Jamaica Pond along with Yellow Perch, young Largemouth Bass, Bluegill and Crayfish. Between Jamaica Pond and Leverett you have a bunch more tree species to add as you probably know, take care,
-AJ

Re: Some more species between Ward's and Willow pond for you

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I do need to get on the tulip poplar before they lose all their leaves. I wish I'd gotten a picture while they were in flower. I have never seen the sticklebacks, though I'm aware they're supposed to be there.

Check my January and february--I've done a lot of winter ducks already. I'll be scanning Leverett for any I missed, for sure.

I was unaware of the fish diversity at Ward's! Pretty interesting. I saw some larger (than sunfish) stuff in there while snorkeling, but assumed that they were stocked fish washed down from Jamaica pond. Maybe I'll take my net down there before it freezes. :)
Thanks!

Re: Some more species between Ward's and Willow pond for you

[(Anonymous)]

I found your full list, I see you have a good number of winter ducks.

Well, at least the Tulip Poplar has interesting bark :-)

I've always wanted to snorkel Wards! Never worked up the hutzpah to do it. I've been kicked off Wards and J-Pond ice skating and J-Pond is great for night swimming.

By diversity I mean for a small pond it's surprising what's in there, there's nothing unusual for Boston except maybe the Redfin Pickerel. I think it's a richer pondfish habitat than J-Pond. List of what I've observed in Wards (I see you have some of them):
Black Crappie
Bluegill
Pumpikinseed
Largemouth Bass
Golden Shiner
Chain Pickerel
Redfin Pickerel* (listed by Karsten Hartel, I haven't observed it)
Goldfish (gold form of common carp, haven't seen the standard dark colored carp there)
Brown Bullhead
guessing there are other fish species documented somewhere or yet to be noticed

The sticklebacks are in Willow Pond and the little spring pond. In the spring pond you can see them against the green aquatic plants (what species?) over the spring bubbling up in the south end of the pond. They grow bigger (for sticklebacks) in Willow Pond. When everything is iced up in cold winters kingfishers will hunt sticklebacks in the spring pond which never freezes. There are land-locked Mummichugs (normally tidal zone and saltwater killifish) in the Muddy below Boylston Street. There's some kind of introduced red-finned shiner-like fish in the lower Muddy down to the Charles River. Also eels in there.

If you follow the little brook from the spring pond into Willow Pond there are some interesting semi-aquatic plants including I think watercress.