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Link Amber Darter (Percina antesella)
The amber darter is a small perch-like fish usually less than 2.5 inches (6 cm) long with a series of dark blotches along the sides and four dark "saddles" ...
Link American Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus anatum)
This fast-flying bird of prey is about the size of a crow - a foot and a half long (0.5 m). In flight, it has a 3.5 foot (1.1 m) pointed wingspread. At rest, ...
Link Bachman's Warbler (Vermivora bachmanii)
Bachman's warbler is the rarest native songbird in the United States. This tiny bird is about four inches long (10.2 cm). The male is yellow below and dark ...
Link Best Management Practices: Endangered Species Act
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Link Black-spored Quillwort (Isoetes melanospora)
Aquatic plant 3-8 centimeters (1.2-3.2in) tall that reproduces by spores. Has five to 10 pointed, stiff and needle-like leaves, about 5-7 centimeters (2-2.8 ...
Link Endangered Plant Species of the Coastal Plain of Georgia
The Endangered Species Act helps protect plants and animals in danger of extinction. Every federal agency and any activity or program funded, authorized or ...
Link Endangered Plant Species of the Georgia Piedmont
This fact sheet is to help build awareness of our natural heritage and legal responsibilities.
Link ESA Candidate Species for Federal Protection
Candidate species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, as amended, are species about which there is sufficient supporting scientific information for ...
Link Federal Listing: Candidate Species in Georgia
Candidate species are identified for listing as a federally protected species under the Endangered Species Act. These species are not currently under federal ...
Link Federally Listed Endangered Species in Georgia
Endangered and threatened species of animals and plants are given federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. Federal protection includes individuals ...
Link Federally Protected Plants of Georgia
Everyone is aware of the plight of endangered animals but few know about our endangered and threatened plants (Federally listed). Many people do not know or ...
Link Florida Torreya (Torreya taxifolia)
Small to medium-sized evergreen tree with a pungent, aromatic odor. Horizontal and spreading branches have drooping tips. Mature height is 10.6 meters (35 ft) ...
Link Freshwater Mussels On Georgia's List of Federally Protected Species
On April 16, 1993 eleven species of freshwater mussels were given protection under the Endangered Species Act. Nine of these mussel species have ranges that ...
Link Fringed Champion (Silene polypetala)
Showy, ground hugging perennial herb. Cultivars are found in the horticultural trade as a ground cover and used for color accents. Most stems recline along the ...
Link Goldline Darter (Percina aurolineata)
Goldline darters are slender, medium-sized fish about 3 inches long (7.6 cm) that exhibit sexual and seasonal differences in coloration. In the spring and ...
Link Green Pitcherplant (Sarracenia oreophila)
Perennial, insect-trapping wetland plant. Leaves are spreading, flattened, sickle- shaped, about 5 - 15 centimeters (2 - 6 in) long and 1 - 2 centimeters (0.4 ...
Link Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
The long-lived green sea turtle weighs up to 850 pounds (382.5 kg), but anything more than 450 pounds (202.5 kg) is unusual today. The shell is heart-shaped, ...
Link Hairy Rattleweed (Baptisia arachnifera)
Perennial, multi-branched about 50-80 centimeters (20-32 in) tall. Reddish-brown stem is covered by dense silvery-white hairs. Leathery leaves are nearly round ...
Link Harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum)
Found on and around wet sand bars, shoals, seeps, fast-flowing clear rocky streams, wet savanna meadows, shallow depressions in flatwoods, shallow pineland ...
Link Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochlys imbricata)
The hawksbill turtle's shell is covered with glossy brown and tan overlapping scutes, or horny plates. It reaches 2 feet (65 cm) long and weighs an average of ...
Link Help Save America's Pearly Mussels
This publication will provide you with a brief look at freshwater mussels -- what they look like, where they live, what they eat, why they are valuable, how ...
Link Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)
At 19.5 inches (50 cm), the ivory-billed woodpecker is the largest of the North American woodpeckers -- about the size of a crow. A red crest marks the male; ...
Link Kirtland's Warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii)
Kirtland's warbler is the only gray-backed warbler in the eastern United States that wags its tail. This small songbird is about 4.75 inches long (12 cm) with ...
Link Last Generation: Our Endangered Species
Through the generations, changing environments cause some living things to flourish, some to linger on the edge of existence, and others to no longer survive. ...
Link Leatherback Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
The leatherback lives in the open ocean out to the edge of the continental shelf. Although this species has been found to nest on the Georgia coast, it is most ...
Link Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta)
A large-headed turtle with an elongated, heart-shaped shell, the loggerhead has a reddish-brown to brown upper side and yellow to cream underside. Loggerheads ...
Link Mat-forming Quillwort (Isoetes tegitiformans)
Aquatic plant 3-8 centimeters (1.2-3.2in) tall that reproduces by spores. Has five to 10 pointed, stiff and needle-like leaves, about 5-7 centimeters (2-2.8 ...
Link Persistent Trillium (Trillium persistens)
Perennial wildflower with a pale green to dark reddish-purple colored stem about 10 - 25 centimeters (4 - 10 in) long. Stem topped with a whorl of three ...
Link Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
The piping plover is a small shorebird about 7 inches (17.75 cm) long that resembles a sandpiper. The upper parts of the bird are a light sandy brown while the ...
Link Relict Trillium (Trillium reliquum)
Perennial wildflower with three elliptical, pointed leaves about 5 - 13 centimeters (2 - 5 in) long, each mottled in several shades of green. Grows from a ...
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