Carpinteria Salt Marsh

Food Chain

Accipiter cooperii
(Cooper's Hawk)

Calidris alpina


Eogammarus confervicolus


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Animalia Plantae

Animalia

Aves (birds)
Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's Hawk) TLC
Accipiter striatus (Sharp-shinned Hawk) TLC
Actitis macularius (Spotted sandpiper)
Aechmophorus clarkii (Clark's Grebe)
Aechmophorus occidentalis (Western Grebe)
Aeronautes saxatalis (White-throated Swift)
Agelaius phoeniceus (Red-winged Blackbird)
Aix sponsa (Wood Duck)
Anas acuta (Northern Pintail)
Anas americana (American Wigeon)
Anas clypeata (Northern Shoveler)
Anas crecca (Green-winged Teal)
Anas cyanoptera (Cinnamon Teal)
Anas discors (Blue-winged Teal)
Anas penelope (Eurasian Wigeon)
Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard)
Anas strepera (Gadwall)
Anser albifrons (Greater White-fronted Goose)
Anthus rubescens (Buff-bellied Pipit)
Aphelocoma coerulescens (Florida Scrub-Jay)
Ardea alba (Great Egret)
Ardea herodias (Great Blue Heron)
Arenaria interpres (Ruddy Turnstone)
Arenaria melanocephala (Black Turnstone)
Aythya affinis (Lesser Scaup)
Bombycilla cedrorum (Cedar Waxwing)
Botaurus lentiginosus (American Bittern)
Branta bernicla (Brent Goose)
Branta canadensis (Canada Goose)
Bubo virginianus (Great Horned Owl)
Bubulcus ibis (Cattle Egret)
Bucephala albeola (Bufflehead)
Bucephala clangula (Common Goldeneye)
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk) TLC
Buteo lineatus (Red-shouldered Hawk) TLC
Butorides virescens (Green Heron)
Calamospiza melanocorys (Lark Bunting)
Calidris alba (Sanderling)
Calidris alpina (Dunlin)
Calidris canutus (Red Knot)
Calidris himantopus (Stilt Sandpiper)
Calidris mauri (Western Sandpiper)
Calidris melanotos (Pectoral Sandpiper)
Calidris minutilla (Least Sandpiper)
Callipepla californica (Californian Quail)
Calypte anna (Anna's Hummingbird)
Cardellina pusilla (Wilson's Warbler)
Catharus guttatus (Hermit Thrush)
Chaetura vauxi (Vaux's Swift)
Charadrius alexandrinus (Snowy Plover)
Charadrius semipalmatus (Semipalmated Plover)
Charadrius vociferus (Killdeer)
Chen caerulescens (Snow Goose)
Chordeiles acutipennis (Lesser Nighthawk)
Chroicocephalus philadelphia (Bonaparte's Gull)
Circus cyaneus (Northern Harrier) TLC
Cistothorus palustris (Marsh Wren)
Colaptes auratus (Northern Flicker)
Columba livia (Rock Pigeon)
Contopus sordidulus (Western Wood-Pewee)
Corvus brachyrhynchos (American Crow)
Corvus corax (Northern Raven)
Cygnus columbianus (Tundra Swan)
Dendrocygna bicolor (Fulvous Whistling-Duck)
Dryobates pubescens gairdnerii (Downy Woodpecker)
Egretta caerulea (Little Blue Heron)
Egretta thula (Snowy Egret)
Egretta tricolor (Tricolored Heron)
Elanus leucurus (White-tailed Kite)
Empidonax difficilis (Pacific-slope Flycatcher)
Empidonax traillii (Willow Flycatcher)
Eremophila alpestris (Horned Lark)
Euphagus cyanocephalus (Brewer's Blackbird)
Falco columbarius (Merlin)
Falco peregrinus (Peregrine Falcon)
Falco sparverius (American Kestrel)
Fregata magnificens (Magnificent Frigatebird)
Fulica americana (American Coot)
Gallinago gallinago (Common Snipe)
Gallinula chloropus (Common Moorhen)
Gavia immer (Great Northern Loon)
Gavia pacifica (Pacific Loon)
Gavia stellata (Red-throated Loon)
Geothlypis trichas (Common Yellowthroat)
Haemorhous mexicanus (House Finch)
Haemorhous purpureus (Purple Finch)
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)
Himantopus mexicanus (Black-necked Stilt)
Hirundo rustica (Barn Swallow)
Histrionicus histrionicus (Harlequin Duck)
Hydroprogne caspia (Caspian Tern)
Icterus bullockii (Bullock's Oriole)
Icterus cucullatus (Hooded Oriole)
Junco hyemalis (Dark-eyed Junco)
Lanius ludovicianus (Loggerhead Shrike)
Larus argentatus (Herring Gull)
Larus californicus (California Gull)
Larus canus (Mew Gull)
Larus delawarensis (Ring-billed Gull)
Larus glaucescens (Glaucous-winged Gull)

Food Chain

Circus cyaneus
(Northern Harrier)

Calidris alpina


Eogammarus confervicolus


Ecosystem provided by Lafferty, K. D., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. L. Whitney and A. M. Kuris (in press) Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. In Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics (eds S. Collinge and C. Ray). Oxford University Press, Oxford.