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IPPL Grounds Home to Varied Wildlife

August 2003

IPPL's ten acres of land protect a wide variety of wildlife as well as our resident animals. Along one boundary of our property are some beautiful woodlands, a strip of which is owned by IPPL. There are also woods at the front of the property outside the fence where deer sometimes shelter. At IPPL's 2000 conference naturalist Rudy Mancke, producer of the TV program "Nature Scene," was delighted at the many creatures that share our property and greatly enjoyed showing Yana Qomariana of Indonesia and other IPPL friends some of South Carolina's animals right on IPPL premises.

IPPL animal caregiver Hardy prepared the list below of animals that have actually been observed on IPPL grounds. You can see how important it is to protect land for wildlife. IPPL hopes that, if any neighboring land becomes available, we will be able to buy it. We would also like to acquire some land further out in the country so we can expand our primate sheltering work.

List of wildlife found on IPPL property
Mammals
Gray squirrel (some even have names!)
Opossum
White-tailed deer (outside fenced area)
Cottontail rabbit
Little brown bat

Birds - Year Round
Great blue heron
Belted kingfisher
Turkey vulture (circling overhead)
Black vulture
Family of red shouldered hawks
Mourning dove
Red-bellied woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Pileated woodpecker
Northern flicker
White-eyed vireo
House finch
Blue jay
Tufted titmouse
White breasted nuthatch
American crow

Northern cardinal
Wild turkey
Northern mockingbird
Pine warbler
Barred owl (heard regularly at night)
American robin
Carolina chickadee
Carolina wren (state bird of South Carolina)
Eastern bluebird
Gray catbird
European starling
Yellow throated warbler
Pine warbler
Brown-headed cowbird

Birds - Summer Visitors
Ruby throated hummingbird (1,000 mile migration)
Chimney swift
Painted bunting
Indigo bunting
Purple martin
Eastern wood-pewee
Eastern kingbird
Wood thrush

Birds - Winter Visitors
Yellow-bellied sapsucker
Eastern Phoebe
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Vesper sparrow
Savannah sparrow
Red-winged blackbird (seen in huge flocks)
American goldfinch (seen in large flocks)

Reptiles - Snakes
Black racer
Black rat snake
Copperhead
Eastern kingsnake
Redbelly water snake
Ringneck snake
Rough green snake
Yellow rat snake
Timber (canebrake) rattlesnake

Venomous snakes are humanely captured and released in isolated woodland areas.

Reptiles - Lizards
Broadhead skink
Five-lined skink
Carolina anole
Ground skink

Reptiles - Turtles
Eastern box turtle
Yellowbelly slider

Amphibians - Salamanders
Slimy salamander
Southern dusky salamander
Marbled salamander

Amphibians - Frogs/Toads
Eastern narrowmouth toad
Squirrel tree frog
Spring peeper
Green tree frog
Southern toad
Oak toad
Eastern spadefoot toad


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