Carpinteria Salt Marsh

Food Chain

Pandion haliaetus
(Osprey)

Mugil cephalus


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Animalia Plantae

Animalia

Aves (birds)
Larus heermanni (Heermann's Gull)
Larus occidentalis (Western Gull)
Leiothlypis celata (Orange-crowned Warbler)
Leiothlypis ruficapilla (Nashville Warbler)
Limnodromus griseus (Short-billed Dowitcher)
Limnodromus scolopaceus (Long-billed Dowitcher)
Limosa fedoa (Marbled Godwit)
Megaceryle alcyon (Belted Kingfisher)
Melanitta fusca (White-winged Scoter)
Melanitta perspicillata (Surf Scoter)
Melospiza lincolnii (Lincoln's Sparrow)
Melospiza melodia (Song Sparrow)
Melozone crissalis (California Towhee)
Mergus merganser (Common Merganser)
Mergus serrator (Red-breasted Merganser)
Molothrus ater (Brown-headed Cowbird)
Mycteria americana (Wood Stork)
Myiarchus cinerascens (Ash-throated Flycatcher)
Myiarchus tuberculifer (Dusky-capped Flycatcher)
Numenius americanus (Long-billed Curlew)
Numenius phaeopus (Whimbrel)
Nycticorax nycticorax (Black-crowned Night-Heron)
Oreoscoptes montanus (Sage Thrasher)
Oxyura jamaicensis (Ruddy Duck)
Pandion haliaetus (Osprey) TLC
Passer domesticus (House Sparrow)
Passerculus sandwichensis (Savannah Sparrow)
Passerella iliaca (Fox Sparrow)
Passerina amoena (Lazuli Bunting)
Passerina caerulea (Blue Grosbeak)
Petrochelidon pyrrhonota (Cliff Swallow)
Phalacrocorax auritus (Double-crested Cormorant)
Phalaenoptilus nuttallii (Common Poorwill)
Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope)
Phalaropus lobatus (Red-necked Phalarope)
Phalaropus tricolor (Wilson's Phalarope)
Pheucticus melanocephalus (Black-headed Grosbeak)
Pipilo maculatus (Spotted Towhee)
Piranga ludoviciana (Western Tanager)
Plegadis chihi (White-faced Ibis)
Pluvialis dominica (American Golden-Plover)
Pluvialis fulva (Pacific Golden-Plover)
Pluvialis squatarola (Grey Plover)
Podiceps auritus (Horned Grebe)
Podiceps grisegena (Red-necked Grebe)
Podiceps nigricollis (Eared Grebe)
Podilymbus podiceps (Pied-billed Grebe)
Polioptila caerulea (Blue-grey Gnatcatcher)
Porzana carolina (Sora)
Psaltriparus minimus (Bushtit)
Rallus limicola (Virginia Rail)
Rallus longirostris levipes (Light-footed Clapper Rail)
Recurvirostra americana (American Avocet)
Regulus calendula (Ruby-crowned Kinglet)
Riparia riparia (Sand Martin)
Sayornis nigricans (Black Phoebe)
Sayornis saya (Say's Phoebe)
Selasphorus rufus (Rufous Hummingbird)
Selasphorus sasin (Allen's Hummingbird)
Setophaga coronata (Yellow-rumped Warbler)
Setophaga palmarum (Palm Warbler)
Setophaga petechia (Yellow Warbler)
Setophaga townsendi (Townsend's Warbler)
Sialia mexicana (Western Bluebird)
Sitta canadensis (Red-breasted Nuthatch)
Sitta carolinensis (White-breasted Nuthatch)
Sphyrapicus ruber (Red-breasted Sapsucker)
Spinus pinus (Pine Siskin)
Spinus psaltria (Lesser Goldfinch)
Spinus tristis (American Goldfinch)
Spizella passerina (Chipping Sparrow)
Stelgidopteryx ruficollis (Southern Rough-winged Swallow)
Sterna forsteri (Forster's Tern)
Sterna hirundo (Common Tern)
Sturnella neglecta (Western Meadowlark)
Sturnus vulgaris (European Starling)
Tachycineta bicolor (Tree Swallow)
Tachycineta thalassina (Violet-green Swallow)
Thalasseus elegans (Elegant Tern)
Thalasseus maximus (Royal Tern)
Thryomanes bewickii (Bewick's Wren)
Tringa flavipes (Lesser Yellowlegs)
Tringa incana (Wandering Tattler)
Tringa melanoleuca (Greater Yellowlegs)
Tringa semipalmata (Willet)
Troglodytes aedon (House Wren)
Turdus migratorius (American Robin)
Tyrannus melancholicus (Tropical Kingbird)
Tyrannus tyrannus (Eastern Kingbird)
Tyrannus verticalis (Western Kingbird)
Tyrannus vociferans (Cassin's Kingbird)
Tyto alba (Barn Owl) TLC
Vireo gilvus (Warbling Vireo)
Zenaida macroura (Mourning Dove)
Zonotrichia atricapilla (Golden-crowned Sparrow)
Zonotrichia leucophrys (White-crowned Sparrow)
Mammalia (mammals)
Acanthogobius flavimanus (Yellowfin goby)
Atherinops affinis (Topsmelt silverside)
Cheilotrema saturnum (Croaker)
Clevelandia ios (Arrow goby)

Food Chain

Accipiter striatus
(Sharp-shinned Hawk)

Geothlypis trichas


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.