“THE LIST”
How many species can you name? How many birds? How many butterflies? How many species in your community are at risk of disappearing?
You might be surprised to learn that in Waterloo Region there are 129 species at risk of extinction. There are plants, invertebrates, reptiles, birds, fish, amphibians and mammals on this list.
Ask your students to pick a species from this list the next time you do an activity on biodiversity, adaptations, or interactions in ecosystems. Why are these species on this list? What can we do in Waterloo Region to help protect them?
| Acadian Flycatcher |
| Amber-winged Spreadwing |
| American Badger |
| American Bumble Bee |
| American Burying Beetle |
| American Chestnut |
| Bald Eagle |
| Bank Swallow |
| Barn Owl |
| Barn Swallow |
| Black Dash |
| Black Redhorse |
| Black Tern |
| Blanding’s Turtle |
| Blushing Scale Lichen |
| Bobolink |
| Braun’s Holly Fern |
| Bristling Shadow Lichen |
| Bristly Buttercup |
| Broad-leaved Puccoon |
| Brown Scoopwing |
| Butternut |
| Canada Warbler |
| Carey’s Sedge |
| Carolina Vetch |
| Cerulean Warbler |
| Chimney Swift |
| Chinese Hemlock-parsley |
| Common Hop-tree |
| Common Nighthawk |
| Differential Grasshopper |
| Double-striped Bluet |
| Downy Yellow False Foxglove |
| Eastern Burning Bush |
| Eastern Meadowlark |
| Eastern Milksnake |
| Eastern Ribbonsnake |
| Eastern Small-footed Myotis |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will |
| Eastern Wood-pewee |
| Edible Valerian |
| Eight-flowered Fescue |
| Elktoe |
| False Hop Sedge |
| Fern-leaved Yellow False Foxglove |
| Field Thistle |
| Gattinger’s False Foxglove |
| Glorious Habrosyne |
| Grasshopper Sparrow |
| Great St. John’s-wort |
| Greater Redhorse |
| Green Arrow Arum |
| Green Dragon |
| Green-striped Darner |
| Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble Bee |
| Hackberry Emperor |
| Hairy-fruited Sedge |
| Harbinger-of-spring |
| Henslow’s Sparrow |
| Hoary Long-horned Bee |
| Jefferson Salamander |
| King Rail |
| Least Bittern |
| Little Brown Myotis |
| Lizard’s-tail |
| Loggerhead Shrike |
| Long-styled Canada Sanicle |
| Louisiana Waterthrush |
| Meadow Evening-primrose |
| Midland Painted Turtle |
| Monarch Butterfly |
| Moss Phlox |
| Nine-spotted Lady Beetle |
| Northern Bobwhite |
| Northern Brook Lamprey |
| Northern Bush Katydid |
| Northern Hawthorn |
| Northern Map Turtle |
| Northern Myotis |
| Northern Pin Oak |
| Painted Skimmer |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Pignut Hickory |
| Pronghorn Clubtail |
| Purple Martin |
| Purplish Copper |
| Puttyroot |
| Pygmy Pocket Moss |
| Queensnake |
| Rainbow Mussel |
| Ram’s-head Lady’s-slipper |
| Red-headed Woodpecker |
| Redside Dace |
| River Bluet |
| Ruddy Dagger Moth |
| Rue-anemone |
| Rusty-patched Bumble Bee |
| Scarlet Beebalm |
| Schweinitz’s Sedge |
| Sharp-fruited Rush |
| Shiny Wedge Grass |
| Short-eared Owl |
| Silver Shiner |
| Slender Mountain-mint |
| Slim-flowered Muhly |
| Slippershell Mussel |
| Smith’s Bulrush |
| Smooth Yellow False Foxglove |
| Snapping Turtle |
| Soft-hairy False Gromwell |
| Spatterdock Darner |
| Speckled Giant Lacewing |
| Striped Cream Violet |
| Swamp Darner |
| Tawny Emperor |
| Transverse Lady Beetle |
| Tri-colored Bat |
| Unicorn Clubtail |
| Unisexual Ambystoma (Jefferson Salamander dependent population) |
| Unsated Sallow |
| Virginia Bluebells |
| Wavy-rayed Lampmussel |
| West Virginia White |
| Western Chorus Frog – Great Lakes – St. Lawrence – Canadian Shield population |
| Wild Licorice |
| Wood Thrush |
| Woodland Flax |
| Yellow-banded Bumble Bee |
| Yellow-breasted Chat |