Appendix D Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern

CBCL Limited Land Use and Environment Division Appendices Appendix D Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern

NSDNR SARA Status & NSESA Scientific Name Common Name General ACCDC Habitat Region Schedule Status Status BIRDS Accipiter gentilis Northern Goshawk Yellow S3B Woodlots, forested areas Scattered throughout NS Old growth of mature coniferous forests or Accipiter gentilis laingi Northern Goshawk Threatened Rare throughout the province. deciduous forests of mature trees in age and structure Offshore shoals and ledges, Alca torda Razorbill Yellow S1B,SZN nests on cliffs or rocky Year round resident of NS shorelines and on islands Salt marshes and other saline Scattered throughout NS coastal Ammodramus caudacutus Sharp-tailed Sparrow Yellow habitats regions Open areas, including grasslands, wet meadows, Special Concern, Asio flammeus Short-eared Owl Yellow S1S2B marshes, fields, airports, Scatter throughout NS Schedule 3 forest clearings, muskegs and open bogs Breeds in dense coniferous mixed and riparian forests and areas with tall shrubs. Winter in woodlots dense riparian Asio otus Long-eared Owl Yellow S1S2 Scattered throughout NS woodlands and hedgerows isolated tree groves in meadows fields cemeteries, farmyards or parks Year round resident in Digby Coastal bays, estuaries, County, migratory in Yarmouth, Branta bernicla Brant Yellow S2M shorelines and agricultural Shelburne, Pictou, Colchester, fields Cumberland Kings and Hants counties, along the coast Small numbers breed and winter in Maritimes, during non breeding may be found in coastal waters of Estuary and Bucephala islandica Barrow's Goldeneye Special Concern Yellow S1N Coastal waters of the Maritimes Gulf, during later fall and winter and early spring large numbers are found in the St. Lawrence Sandy beaches, with gentle Calidris canutus Red Knot Endangered Yellow S3M slopes and minimal wave Rare throughout NS. action. Coastal mudflats, beaches Semipalmated Calidris pusilla Yellow S4M and shorelines, spits and Migratory along coast in NS Sandpiper pondshores Breeds in open and closed canopy coniferous forests mainly in darker moister Special boreal forests. In migration Catharus minimus Bicknell's Thrush Special Concern Yellow SZN Cape Breton Concern they occur mainly in coastal shrub and tuckamore but occasionally second-growth and overgrown gardens Nest in chimneys or old Chaetura pelagica Chimney Swift Yellow S4B cabins in the forest, but most Scattered throughout NS nest in tree hollows Breed on sandy beaches backed by dunes and close to shallow tidal flats. In Migratory on the western side of Endangered, Charadrius melodus Piping Plover Endangered Red S1B migration the are found on NS (including CB) summer Schedule 1 sandbars, beaches and mud breeding on east side of province flats rarely away from the coast Sparsely vegetated or bare ground in open 'wastelands' such as pine barrens, forest Chordeiles minor Common Nighthawk Threatened Threatened Yellow S4B Scattered throughout NS cut-overs, or burns and secondarily on flat roofs of buildings. Open woodlands and other places where scattered trees Contopus borealis Olive-sided Flycatcher Yellow Scattered throughout NS remain and cutting or fire in forest regions. Tall grassy meadows and ditches, hayfields and some croplands; increasingly uses Dolichonyx oryzivorus Bobolink Yellow S3B Scattered throughout NS coastal meadowlands and sand dunes with wax myrtle and other low growth Migratory along coast in Open edges of , lakes Egretta thula Snowy Egret Yellow SAB Shelburne, Queens, Lunenburg and marshes and Halifax Counties Breeds in treed bogs fens, beaver ponds, wet meadows, and the shrubby shorelines of lakes, rivers and swamps. In More than 70% of the breeding Euphagus carolinus Rusty Blackbird Special Concern Yellow S3B migration and winter, they range of the species is in occur in marshes, open fields, ’s boreal forest feedlots and woodland edges near water and occasionally at feeders in winter. Migratory bird throughout NS, Lake shores, valleys, breeds around the , Threatened, Falco peregrinus Peregrine Falcon Threatened Red S1B river mouths, urban areas, , Cumberland, Schedule 1 and open fields Colchester, Hants, Kings, Victoria and Inverness Counties Breeds in inaccessible coastal cliffs and offshore islands with turf, coastal and offshore Fratercula arctica Atlantic Puffin Yellow S1B On east side of NS waters. Migrate and winter in open ocean and occasionally inshore Large rivers and lakes, often with islands that provide undisturbed shorelines for nesting. In migration and Gavia immer Common Loon Yellow S4B,S4N winter they are found in Scattered throughout NS saltwater bays and headlands, occasionally on lakes and unfrozen open water

1 NSDNR SARA Status & NSESA Scientific Name Common Name General ACCDC Habitat Region Schedule Status Status Breeds everywhere there are buildings and other structures that provide sheltered, dry Hirundo rustica Barn Swallow Yellow S4B nest-sites, even nesting on Scattered throughout NS isolated cabins in deep woodland and on fishing shacks on offshore islands. Nests built on ground of Harlequins winter along the islands or banks of fast rugged coasts of southern flowing stream, favor marine Special Newfoundland, the Atlantic Coast environment, move inland to Histrionicus histrionicus Harlequin Duck Special Concern Concern, Red S2N of , in the Bay of breed. In winter occurs along Schedule 1 Fundy off New Brunswick, the Gulf headlands where surf breaks of Maine to as far south as the against rocks, feed close to mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. rocky shorelines Dense thickets, around Yellow-breasted Chat Special Concern, woodland edges, riparian Icteria virens virens Accidental Rare throughout the province. Virens subspecies Schedule 1 areas and overgrown clearings or clear cuts. Coniferous forest including Red Crossbill, percna Loxia curvirostra percna Endangered mature black spruce and Rare throughout the province. subspecies balsam fir stands. Breeding habitat consisted of treeless upland tundra with dwarf shrubs and grassy tundra meadows. During fall migration, the birds used a Numenius borealis Eskimo Curlew Endangered SXM variety of coastal and Scattered throughout NS terrestrial habitats. They fed in areas of crowberry, salt marsh, meadows, pastures, old fields, intertidal flats and sand dunes. Shallow cattail and bulrush Migratory in all counties south and Black-crowned Night- Nycticorax nycticorax Yellow S1B marshes, lakeshores and including Cumberland, Colchester Heron along slow rivers and Halifax to Yarmouth County Coniferous forest, dominated Parus hudsonicus Boreal Chickadee Yellow Scattered throughout NS by spruce Hayfields, dunes or grassier Savannah (Ipswich) Northern Cape Breton and the Passerculus sandwichensis Special Concern, parts of bogs and barrens, Sparrow, princeps S1B largest population located on princeps Schedule 1 just above the level of the subspecies Sable Island. highest tide. Perisoreus canadensis Gray Jay Yellow S4 Coniferous forest Scattered throughout NS Lakes, large wetlands and Migratory bird at sea and close to Phalaropus fulicaria Red Phalarope Yellow sewage lagoons land in the Bay of Fundy Well out to sea, off headlands and around areas of ocean Phalaropus lobatus Red-necked Phalarope Yellow S3S4M Out to sea and Bay of Fundy upwellings in the Bay of Fundy Open fields borders or interspersed with shrubs, Victoria, Inverness, Antigonish, semi-open shrub lands and Guysborough, Yarmouth, Digby, Pooecetes gramineus Vesper Sparrow Yellow S2S3B grasslands, also in agricultural Annapolis, Shelburne and Queens areas, open, dry conifer Counties plantations and scrubby gravel pits Semi-open areas including Progne subis Purple Martin Yellow S1B gardens and fields, almost Scattered throughout NS always near water Endangered, Protonotary citrea Protonotary Warbler Accidental Deciduous swamp forests Rare throughout the province. Schedule 1 Cropland fencelines, meadows, fallow and Breeding throughout northern and abandoned fields, pastures, Sialia sialis Eastern Bluebird Yellow S2S3B central NS and migratory forest clearings and edges, throughout southern NS golf courses, large lawns and cemeteries Coastal areas of Nova Scotia. Concentrated on a few islands off Sterna dougallii Roseate Tern Endangered Endangered Red S1B Common, Arctic and Roseate the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. tern nest together Breeds in natural and human- made islands, breakwaters Sterna hirundo Common Tern Not at risk Yellow S3B and beaches. Migratory along On coastal regions in NS large lakes, open wetlands and slow-moving rivers Breed on marshy tundra, sand and gravel bars, sandspits, barren islands, beaches and Sterna paradisaea Arctic Tern Yellow S3B NS rocky shorelines. In migration on large lakes, rivers and wetlands Breeds in grassy meadows and pastures, also in some croplands, weedy fields, Breeds along Bay of Fundy, and is grassy roadsides and old Sturnella magna Eastern Meadowlark Yellow S1B migratory throughout Halifax orchards. During the winter County they are found in coastal barrens and fields, croplands and wastelands PLANTS In fertile or alkaline soils, oak, Northern Maidenhair- Yarmouth to Northern Cape Adiantum pedatum Red S1 birch, sugar maple, elm, Fern Breton, Meander River Intervale shady moist soils Muddy edges of rivers and Top of Cape Blomindon from Alopecurus aequalis Short-Awn Foxtail Yellow S2S3 shallow ponds and gravel Cumberland County to the margins Margaree in Cape Breton Near the sea at Cape Jack and Harve Boucher, Antigonish Damp thickets, meadows and County. North of Cheticamp at Anemone canadensis Canada Anemone Yellow S2 gravelly shores, on Presquille, Cape North and Bay calcareous or alluvial soils St. Lawrence, Cape Breton, Meander River , Hants County and Queens County One colony found on the north Shores and rocky banks on face of limestone cliff below water Anemone multifida Early Anemone Red S1 calcareous soil fall at Corney Brook gorge in Inverness, CBI Wet limestone cliffs bordering National Park, Anemone parviflora Small-Flower Anemone Red S1 waterfalls and gravelly bluffs Inverness County North of Bridgetown, Annapolis County; Newport Hants County; Wooded riverbanks and and Middle Stewiack, St. Andrews Anemone quinquefolia Wood Anemone Yellow S2 shaded intervales River in Colchester County; Sherbrooke, Guysborough County; West Middle River in Cape Breton

2 NSDNR SARA Status & NSESA Scientific Name Common Name General ACCDC Habitat Region Schedule Status Status County Streamsides, calcareous and Meander River, Hants County, Anemone virginiana River Anemone Yellow S1S2 slaty ledges, shores and Colchester and Pictou counties, thickets Northern Cape Breton, Truro area On a small moist outcrop at Dry cliffs and crevices, Refugee Cove, on west side of Arabis hirsuta Hairy Rock-Cress Red S1S2 ledges, talus slopes and Moose Island , Colchester County, gravels Indian Brook, Boularaderie Island and Cape North, Victoria County Brier Island, Digby Co., Shingle Lake Lunenburg Co. O'Hearn Lake Hants Co., Bennery Lake Halifax Acidic rock barrens crests and Betula glandulosa Swamp Birch Yellow Co., Two Island Lake Ingonish summits Barrens Victoria Co., CB Co., Gaspereaux Guys Co., Twin Island Lake, Ingonish Barrens Bogs and bog meadows, Tarbotville, Northern Victoria and Betula pumila Dwarf Birch Yellow S2S3 mixed with alders of the same Inverness counties, Black River, size Inverness counties River Phillip, Oxford, Cumberland County. The estuaries at Bidens hyperborea Estuary Beggar-Ticks Yellow S1 Estuaries on tidal mudflats Antigonish and Margaree, Inverness County Kentville Ravine, Kings County, Colchester and Cumberland Botrychium lanceolatum Lance-Leaf Grape-Fern Yellow S2 Rich wooded hillsides Counties, Indian Brook Cheticamp River and Grand Anse in Northern Cape Breton Halifax County on Conrad's Beach Gravelly, slopes, shores, and New Campbellton and Indian Botrychium lunaria Moonwort Grape-Fern Red S1 meadows, basic soils Brook in Northern Cape Breton Island. Yarmouth to Northern Cape Bromus latiglumis Broad-Glumed Brome Red S1 Alluvial Floodplains Breton Island and Sable Island Some Lakes near Amherst, reported at Beacher Lake, New England Northern Around lakes and bogs and Calamagrostis stricta Yellow S1S2 Yarmouth County, a larch bog at Reed Grass wet cliff faces Big Baddeck, CB, and Lockhart Brook, Salmon River CB The coastal plain of northern Inverness County near Mabou, Northeastern Margaree, Margaree Swamps, wet meadows and River, St. Joseph du Moine, Caltha palustris Marsh Marigold Yellow S2 wet rocks Cheticamp, Grand Etang, occasionally near the mouth of Grand Anse Brook, Pleasant Bay, Mergomish Island, Pictou County Cumberland and Hants counties to Meadows, ditches and river Campanula aparinoides Marsh Bellflower Yellow S3? Antigonish County, one location in banks Cape Breton County The Bay of Fundy from Brier Dry woods, shaded or Island to Cape Blomindon and Small-Flower Bitter- Cardamine parviflora Yellow S2 exposed ledges and in sandy Cape d'Or, Halifax County to Cress soils Victoria County in Northern Central Cape Breton Swamps, wet meadows, cliff Northern Cape Breton Gisborne, Carex castanea Chestnut-Colored Sedge Red S2 crevices and ledges Victoria Co., expected elsewhere Sphagnum bogs and St. Paul Island, CB and bog at Carex dioica Northern Bog Sedge Red coniferous swamps Black River, Inverness Carex lepidocarpa A Sedge Red Calcareous bogs and gravels Black River, Inverness on CBI Reported from Windsor, Hants Calcareous bogs and County, collected at Louisbourg, Carex livida Livid Sedge Red S1 meadows Cape Breton County and some in Machaud, Richmond County Fens, calcareous coastal Scatterie Island and Baleine on Carex rariflora Loose-Flowered Sedge Red S1 heaths and bogs Cape Breton Island Collected once in NS at Warren Carex saxatilis Russet Sedge Red Damp, peaty or gravelly soils Lake, Victoria County, CBI Little Harbour, Richmond County, Carex tenuiflora Sparse-Flowered Sedge Red S1 Wet woods and bogs CBI Rich soils at the edge of West of Bay Field in St. George's Carex tincta Tinged Sedge Red S1 mixed woods Bay, Inverness County Antigonish Sphagnum swales, gravelly, rocky shores, low pastures Carex viridula Little Green Sedge Red S4 Scattered throughout NS near coast or borders of brackish ponds Cambridge Kings County, Deciduous forests, intervale Kemptown, Colchester County, Caulophyllum thalictroides Blue Cohosh Red S2 forests Inverness, Brooklyn Corner, Hants and Cumberland County Un- Saltmarshes, seashores, Chenopodium rubrum Coast-Blite Goosefoot S1? determined saline soils Moist Woodlands, alluvial Cinna arundinacea Stout Wood Reed-Grass Red S1 Scattered throughout NS soils, wet woods Digby Neck, Digby Co., Broad Swamps, mossy coniferous River Queens County, Salt Conioselinum chinense Hemlock Parsley Yellow S2S3 woods or swales and seepy Springs Cumberland Co., Pleasant slopes near the coast Bay Inverness Co. St. Paul Island, Victoria Co. Eastern NS and northern Cape Crataegus flabellata A Hawthorn Yellow S? Hedgerows and thickets Breton Calcareous soils near The Windsor-Brooklyn area of Large Yellow Lady's- outcrops of gypsum, or Cypripedium calceolus Yellow Hants County sparingly west to Slipper limestone, occasionally in Kings County east to Cape Breton deciduous forests From Hants to Cumberland Cypripedium reginae Showy Lady's-Slipper Red S2 Alkaline bogs and swamps Counties to Northern Cape Breton and central CB Halfway River in Hants County, in Kings County, Desmodium glutinosum Large Tick-Trefoil Red S2 Rich deciduous forests Kejimkujik National Park in Queens County National Norwegian Whitlow- Draba glabella Red S1 Cliff or talus slope Park, Big Intervale, Margaree Grass Inverness County Sydney, Cape Breton Co., Alma Elymus wiegandii Wiegand's Wild Rye Red S1 Stream Banks and Meadows and , Pictou County Halifax County, northern Cape Empetrum rubrum Purple Crowberry Yellow Headlands, bogs and barrens Breton Damp rocks, margins or rills Epilobium hornemannii Hornemann Willow-Herb Yellow S2S3 Northern Cape Breton and similar locations Scattered throughout Cape Breton, infrequent from Epilobium strictum Downy Willow-Herb Yellow S3 Boggy areas and meadows Cumberland County to Queens County 3 NSDNR SARA Status & NSESA Scientific Name Common Name General ACCDC Habitat Region Schedule Status Status Sparsely vegetated habitat near ocean. Habitat Horned Lark, strigata Eremophila alpestris strigata Endangered dominated by grasses and Rare throughout the province. subspecies forbs with few or no trees and shrubs. Pastures, exposed situations in sand and gravel along Festuca rubra Proliferous Red Fescue Yellow S5 Throughout the province beaches and in upper zones of salt marshes Glenora Falls and central Cape Deciduous ravine slopes river Floerkea proserpinacoides False Mermaid-Weed Yellow S2S3 Breton, Antigonish County, Truro margins and intervale forests and Sheffield, Mills, Kings County Digby and central Lunenburg Low ground, damp woods and counties to northern Cape Breton, Fraxinus nigra Black Ash Yellow S3 swamps scattered though northern part of NS Gentianella amarella Northern Gentian Red S1 Hillside and field meadows Meat Cove, Victoria County CBI Kingston and Auburn, Kings Sterile soils and damp sands Geocaulon lividum Northern Comandra Yellow S2S3 County, Cape Breton and Spicer's in acid or peaty areas Cove Cumberland County South Mt. South Harbour, Little Deciduous climax forests, Southwest Brook Vict. Co., North Giant Rattlesnake- Goodyera oblongifolia Yellow S2S3 slopes in damp mixed forests River, Rannies Brook, Lakes Plantain and ravines O'Law Inv. Co. (Northern Cape Breton) Rare on the mainland, reported only from Hall's Harbour, Kings County and Sherbrooke, Halenia deflexa Spurred Gentian Yellow S2S3 Exposed headlands Guysborough County. Common in northern Cape Breton and Scatarie Island. Kings County to northern Cape Rich alluvial soils, damp Impatiens pallida Pale Jewel-Weed Yellow S2 Breton becoming more frequent thickets and along intervales eastward Digby, Annapolis, Guysborough Iris prismatica Slender Blue Flag Red S1 Wet ground near the coast and Inverness counties Cobbly margins and gravel Scattered throughout NS; Ethel bottoms of water bodies, deep Isoetes lacustris Lake Quillwort Vulnerable Yellow S3? Lake on St. Paul Island Cape water of nutrient poor lakes in Breton Precambrian shield Sutherland's Lake in Cumberland County, Economy Lake in Deep water lakes in nutrient Isoetes prototypus Prototype Quillwort Red S2 Colchester County, Pottle Lake in poor acidic water North Sydney, Sandy Lake in Annapolis County. The borders of freshwater Sable Island, near Sydney and ponds, ditches, canals and Juncus bulbosus Bulbous Rush Yellow S1 Louisbourg National Historic Site, roadsides, especially in Cape Breton alkaline soils Gracieville, Richmond County, Bogs and fens along Cape Special Concern, Lower L'Ardoise to Gurchu, CB Juncus caesariensis New Jersey Rush Vulnerable Yellow S2 Breton's southeastern coastal Schedule 1 County, and inland to Loch plain Lomond Wet moss, bogs and bog Gracieville, Richmond County, Isle Juncus stygius Moor Rush Yellow S1 pools Madame, and Louisbourg Alluvial woods of mixed or From Coldbrook, Kings County to Laportea canadensis Wood Nettle Yellow S3 deciduous trees, floodplains northwestern Cape Breton on Cape Breton plateau Kings and Cumberland counties to In meadows and stream Lilium canadense Yellow Canada Lily Yellow S2S3 Middle River and Margaree in banks Cape Breton Lower Frog Pond in Yarmouth, Mud Lake Bog Sheffield Lake, Sphagnum moss, bogs or Kings County, between Hay's Listera australis Southern Twayblade Red S1 damp woods. Always near River and Lake Ainslie Chapel, small spruce or tamarack south of Inverness. Unsubstantiated report at Halifax International Airport Alkaline bog at Black River, Dripping cliffs, wet meadows, Inverness County, wet quaking Lobelia kalmii Kalm's Lobelia Yellow S1S2 and bogs, usually in bog near McAdam Lake, Cape calcareous or marly locations Breton County St. Lawrence Bay north of Cape Luzula spicata Spiked Wood-Rush Red S1 Exposed headlands Breton Island Sterile meadows, grassy Yarmouth and Digby counties east Ophioglossum pusillum Adder's Tongue Yellow S2S3 swamps and damp sandy or to Halifax and Amherst, George cobbly beaches of lakes River in Cape Breton Cumberland and Colchester Canada Mountain- counties, near Potters Lake Oryzopsis canadensis Yellow Dry sandy soils Ricegrass Halifax county, near Jordan Falls, Shelburne County St. Paul Island and Northern Inverness County La Grande Exposed cliff crevices, rocky Falaise and north of Jumping Oxytropis campestris St. John's Oxytrope Red S1 or gravelly scree and Brook in Cape Breton Highlands headlands National Park, Cape D'or, Cumberland County St. Paul Island, Cheticamp River Moist ledges, especially on Pinguicula vulgaris Common Butterwort Red S1 Big Southwest Brook, Corney limestone shores Brook Gouge Inverness, County Southwestern NS; coniferous Large Round-Leaved Platanthera orbiculata Yellow S3 Damp woods in deep shade forest of northern Cape Breton and Orchid Annapolis County Low thickets along river Climbing False- Northern distribution from Digby to Polygonum scandens Yellow S2 intervales. Luxuriant after Buckwheat Richmond counties ground has been disturbed Cape North, Dingwall, Victoria Co.; Alkaline areas on or near Bay St. Lawrence south the Polystichum lonchitis Northern Holly-Fern Yellow S2 limestone or gypsum in rocky Waycobah and River Denys, areas and cool shaded places Whycogomagh Glencoe Mt. in Cape Breton County Greater Creeping Semi-aquatic in bogs and cold Annapolis to Cumberland counties Ranunculus flammula Yellow S5 Spearwort streams to northern Cape Breton Located on calcareous ledges Cape Breton Highlands National Rhododendron lapponicum Lapland Azalea Red S1 at one location in NS Park, Inverness County Southern end of Lake Ainslie at Black River, Smithville Inverness Rhynchospora capillacea Horned Beakrush Red S1 Alkaline bogs and in the Baddeck Bay region, Victoria Co. Thickets, the edge of woods Southwestern counties and Rubus pensilvanicus Pennsylvania Blackberry Yellow S3? and clearings scattered eastward Rough ground thickets, the Southwestern areas, scattered Rubus recurvicaulis a bramble Yellow S? borders of woods and lake east to northern Cape Breton margins Rumex salicifolius Willow Dock Yellow S2 Beaches and along rivers Sweets Corner, Hants County, and

4 NSDNR SARA Status & NSESA Scientific Name Common Name General ACCDC Habitat Region Schedule Status Status River Inhabitants, Inverness County Black River Bog, Cape St. Salix candida Hoary Willow Red S1 Thicket and calcerous bogs Lawrence Inverness and Halifax County St. Paul Island off CBI and Salix cordifolia Gray Willow Red Arctic and alpine Northern Inverness Only in Corney Brook gorge in Salix reticulata Net-Veined Willow Red S1 Calcareous barrens and cliffs Inverness County, Cape Breton Cape Breton Island, St. Paul Barrens and subalpine areas, Island, Corney Brook Gorge, Cape Salix uva-ursi Bearberry Willow Red S1 on calcareous areas Breton Highlands Park, Inverness County Meander River, Hants County, Rich alluvial woods along Sanicula gregaria Black Snake-Root Red Cambridge, Kings County, Mabou intervales Falls, Inverness County Purple Mountain Seepage area on partially Corney Brook Gorge, Cape Breton Saxifraga oppositifolia Red S1 Saxifrage shaded rock face Highlands National Park Scattered along Atlantic coast to Senecio pseudoarnica Seabeach Groundsel Yellow S2 Gravelly seashores Northern Cape Breton, Sable Island Gypsum or talus slopes, along the coast in the reach of salt The roadside between Windsor Shepherdia canadensis Canada Buffalo-Berry Yellow S2 spray, grows with Shrubby and Brooklyn and Northern Cape Ciniquefoil and Serecip Breton puperculus Scatarie Island, Fort Louisbourg Cape Breton Co. Mabou, French Sparganium hyperboreum Northern Bur-Reed Yellow S1S2 Peaty pools Mt. Inverness Co., Drumhead, New Harbour, Guysborough County The meadow along the Salmon River, Truro and in neighbouring Damp or wet grassy places in gardens, from Musquodoboit and Stellaria longifolia Longleaf Stitchwort Yellow S3 sandy to mucky soils valleys, Kemptown, Colchester County, Isle Haute Cumberland, Colchester and Stellaria humifusa Creeping Sandwort Yellow S2 Around salt marshes Guysborough Counties Not well known. Suspected to be Spring rills and the edges of Stellaria crassifolia Fleshy Stitchwort Red S1 scattered in the northern part of ponds. the province. Un- Suaeda calceoliformis American Sea-Blite S2S3 Saltmarshes, sandy beaches Rare throughout NS. determined Gravelly seacoasts the crest Teucrium canadense American Germander Yellow S2S3 of the beach beyond the Scattered throughout NS reach of the tide Swamp, bogs and rocky Black River Bog, and Cheticamp in Tofieldia glutinosa Sticky False-Asphodel Red beaches Inverness County Northeastern Digby Neck, Barren Lake in Utricularia resupinata Red S1 Ponds, lakes and rivershores Bladderwort Richmond County near Argyle Eastern Harbour Cape Breton Co.; Exposed headlands and Forchu Head Rich Co.; Sunday Vaccinium boreale Northern Blueberry Red S2 barrens Lake Lockhart Brook Salmon River Victoria Co. Black River Gaspereau Valley, Newtonville, Kings County, Indian Rocky cliffs and crevices, dry Brook, Middle Branch North River, Vaccinium cespitosum Dwarf Huckleberry Yellow S2 or wet acidic sites from sea Northern Victoria County and level to 3800m Everlasting Barrens, Cheticamp River, Inverness Counties, Halifax County Lockhart Brook, Salmon River, Vaccinium ovalifolium Oval-Leaf Huckleberry Red S1 Moist coniferous woods Glasgow Brook, Victoria Co., Northern CBI St. Paul Island Lockhart Brook Salmon River, Ingonish ;Barrens Aspy Bay Glasgow Lakes area, Dry or wet, organic or Grey Glen, Neils Harbour Victoria Vaccinium uliginosum Alpine Blueberry Yellow S2 inorganic acid soils, tolerant of Co.; Big Head Inv. Co.; Scatarie high copper concentrations Island, CB Co.; Portuguese Cove, Halifax and Brier Island, Digby County Moist soils, pastures and Thyme-Leaved Veronica serpyllifolia Yellow S5 damp runs creeping on the Scattered throughout NS Speedwell grass Wet woods north of Truro, Cool mossy bogs, borders of Viola nephrophylla Northern Bog Violet Yellow S2 occasionally in Cape Breton, also streams and damp woods in Wolfville and Shelburne County North , CB, Cheticamp River and Big Southwest Brook, Woodsia alpina Northern Woodsia Yellow S1S2 Dry cliffs Inverness County, Indian Brook, Victoria County MAMMALS Trees along floodplains Lasiurus cinereus Hoary Bat Yellow S2? Scattered throughout NS wooded areas, hang in trees Forested wilderness areas, favours old growth boreal Lynx lynx Lynx Red forests with a dense Cape Breton Highlands undercover of thickets and windfalls. Caves, mine tunnels, hollow Myotis lucifugus Little Brown Bat Yellow S4 trees, buildings & dead trees Scattered throughout NS close to lakes and ponds Northern Long-eared Myotis septentrionalis Yellow S2 Dense forest and caves Scattered throughout NS Bat Caves, mine tunnels, crevices Pipistrellus subflavus Eastern Pipistrelle Yellow S1? in rocks, buildings wooded Scattered throughout NS areas near water FISH Rivers, freshwater lakes and ponds rivers and lakes along Major Canadian fisheries are on Alosa pseudoharengus Gaspereau (Alewife) Yellow S4 the eastern coast of North the Shubenacadie America, from Newfoundland to North Carolina, Catadromous, spending most Found in majority of the streams Anguilla rostrata American Eel Special Concern S5 of its time in freshwater. and rivers in the Maritimes. The Striped Bass is an anadromous and coastal Shubenacadie (annual spawning) species, inhabiting mainly (Inner Bay of Fundy Stock) and inshore waters. In Canada, Morone saxatalis Striped Bass Red S1 Annapolis (extirpated) Rivers, spawning occurs in May and Margaree River (Miramichi June in fresh water, usually Spawning population) just above the head of tide when sea water warms to 15-

5 NSDNR SARA Status & NSESA Scientific Name Common Name General ACCDC Habitat Region Schedule Status Status 18 °C Freshwater- clean cool flowing water free from pollution and natural streams Salmon spawn in rivers of NS and Endangered, Salmo salar Red S2 with rapids and pools and a NB that drain into the Minas Basin (Anadromous pops.) Schedule 1 gravel bottom with and Chignecto Bay temperatures between 15-25 Celsius. Spring fed springs with many pools and riffles It is found in Salvelinus fontinalis Brook Trout (Char) Yellow S4 a range of waters from tiny Maritime provinces ponds to large rivers, lakes, and salt water estuaries INVERTEBRATES Somatochlora Shallow and Sphagnum Muskeg Emerald Yellow Cape Breton Highlands septentrionalis ponds with bogs

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