Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City by Day, Leslie -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Acknowledgments 1 The Natural History of New York City 2 The Parks

The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island

3 Forever Wild 4 Animals

Invertebrates Annelid

Earthworm

Arachnids

Horseshoe Crab Daddy Longlegs Goldenrod Spider Rabid Wolf Spider

Myriopods

Hoffman’s Dwarf Centipede Garden Centipede Garden Millipede

Insects

Pyralis Firefly Two-Spotted Ladybug Beetle Honeybee Eastern Carpenter Bee Yellow Jacket Common Green Darner Dragonfly Eastern Amberwing Dragonfly Eastern Forktail Damselfly Polyphemus Moth Eastern Tent Moth Cabbage White Butterfly Mourning Cloak Butterfly Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterfly Monarch Butterfly

Crustaceans

Pillbug Sowbug Blue Crab Northern Rock Barnacle Spiny Cheek Crayfish

Vertebrates Fish

American Eel Striped Bass Pumpkinseed Sunfish Bluegill Largemouth Bass

Amphibians

American Bullfrog Fowler’s Toad Red-Backed Salamander Eastern Spotted Newt

Reptiles

Common Snapping Turtle Diamondback Terrapin Eastern Painted Turtle Eastern Garter Snake

Birds

Double-Crested Cormorant Mute Swan Canada Goose Brant Goose American Black Duck Mallard Duck Wood Duck Canvasback Duck Bufflehead Duck Red-Breasted Merganser Hooded Merganser Great Blue Heron Black-Crowned Night Heron Red-Tailed Hawk Osprey Peregrine Falcon Barn Owl Monk Parakeet Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Red-Bellied Woodpecker Blue Jay Black-Capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-Breasted Nuthatch Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird American Robin Black-and-White Warbler Common Yellowthroat Yellow Warbler Red-Winged Blackbird European Starling Baltimore Oriole Scarlet Tanager House Sparrow Dark-Eyed Junco Northern Cardinal House Finch American Goldfinch White-Throated Sparrow

Mammals

Eastern Red Bat Little Brown Bat Big Brown Bat Common Raccoon Eastern Chipmunk Eastern Gray Squirrel Opossum Red Fox

5 Plants

Aquatic Plants

Common Cattail Common Reed

Wildflowers

Red and White Clover Common Milkweed Common Mullein Dandelion Black-Eyed Susan

Trees

Eastern White Pine Austrian Pine Bald Cypress Ailanthus American Elm American Hornbeam Ginkgo Horsechestnut Tree Lindens Honey Locust Black Locust Sugar Maple Red Maple Norway Maple White Mulberry Tree Red Mulberry Tree Eastern White Oak Northern Red Oak Pin Oak Osage Orange Eastern Redbud Sweetgum London Plane American Sycamore Tulip Tree Weeping Willow Wild Cherry

Native Shrubs

Spicebush Common Elderberry Arrowwood Viburnum

Nonnative Shrubs

Fragrant Honeysuckle Butterfly Bush Rugosa Rose

6 Mushrooms

Artist’s Conk Chicken Mushroom, or Chicken-of-the-Woods Turkey Tail

7 Geology

Fordham Gneiss Inwood Marble Manhattan Schist Serpentenite Hartland Formation

Organizations Bibliography Index Credits

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