"COSEWIC" SPECIES LISTING - Species at Risk in Canada ..

SPECIES LISTING

November 2001

EXTINCT -	A SPECIES THAT NO LONGER EXISTS.
EXTIRPATED -	A SPECIES THAT NO LONGER EXISTS IN THE WILD IN CANADA, BUT OCCURRING
	ELSEWHERE.
ENDANGERED -	A SPECIES FACING IMMINENT EXTIRPATION OR EXTINCTION.
THREATENED -	A SPECIES THAT IS LIKELY TO BECOME ENDANGERED IF LIMITING FACTORS
	ARE NOT REVERSED.
SPECIAL CONCERN -	A SPECIES OF SPECIAL CONCERN BECAUSE OF CHARACTERISTICS THAT MAKE
	IT IS PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO HUMAN ACTIVITIES OR NATURAL EVENTS.
NOT AT RISK -	A SPECIES THAT HAS BEEN EVALUATED AND FOUND NOT TO BE AT RISK.
DATA DEFICIENT -	A SPECIES FOR WHICH THERE IS INSUFFICIENT SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION TO
	SUPPORT STATUS DESIGNATION.

		Species Occurence	Extinction Date
MAMMALS	Woodland Caribou (Dawson's subspecies)	British Columbia	in 1920's
	Sea Mink	Atlantic Coatal Waters	in 1894
BIRDS	Great Auk	QC, NB, NS, NF	in 1844
	Labrador Duck	QC, NB, NS, NF	in 1875
	Passenger Pigeon	SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE	in 1914
FISHES	Deepwater Cisco	Ontario	in 1952
	Longjaw Cisco	Ontario	in 1975
	Banff Longnose Dace	Alberta	in 1986
	Benthic Hadley Lake Stickleback	British Columbia	in 1999
	Limnetic Hadley Lake Stickleback	British Columbia	in 1999
	Blue Walleye	Ontario	in 1965
MOLLUSCS	Eelgrass Limpet	QC, NS, NF	in 1929

		Species Occurence	Extinction Date
MAMMALS	Grizzly Bear	AB, SK, MB	in 1880
	Black-footed Ferret	AB, SK, MB	in 1974
	Atlantic Walrus	Atlantic ocean	mid 19th century
	Grey Whale	Atlantic Ocean	before end of 1800's
BIRDS	Sage Grouse	British Columbia	not observed since 1960's
	Greater Prairie-Chicken	AB, SK, MB, ON	last reported in 1987 in Saskatchewan
REPTILES	Pygmy Lizard (short-horned)	British Columbia	last reported in 1898 in BC
	Timber Rattlesnake	Ontario	in 1941
AMPHIBIANS	Tiger Salamander	Ontario	-----
FISHES	Gravel Chub	Ontario	last reported in 1958, Thames River drainage
	Paddlefish	Ontario	in 1917
LEPIDOPTERANS	Karner Blue	Ontario	in 1991
	Frosted Elfin	Ontario	in 1988
	Island Marble	British Columbia	before 1910
MOLLUSCS	Dwarf Wedgemussel	New Brunswick	in 1968
PLANTS	Spring blue-eyed Mary	Ontario	not observed since 1954
	Illinois Tick-trefoil	Ontario	not observed since 1888

MAMMALS	American Badger (jacksoni subspecies) , American Badger (jeffersonil suspecies) , Peary
	Caribou (Banks Island population & High Artic population) , Woodland Caribou , Swift Fox ,
	Vancouver Island Marmot , American Marten , Beluga Whale (Ungava population & St.
	Lawrence River population & Southern Baffin Island-Cumberland Sound) , Bowhead Whale
	(Eastern Artic population & Western Artic population) , Killer Whale , Right Whale , Wolverine
BIRDS	Northern Bobwhite , Western Yellow-breasted Chat , Whooping Crane , Eskimo Curlew ,
	Flycatcher , Sage Grouse (prairie pop.) , Barn Owl (eastern pop.) Acadian, Burrowing Owl ,
	Northern Spotted Owl , Piping Plover (circumcinctus subspecies) , Mountain Plover , King Rail ,
	Eastern Loggerhead Shrike , Henslow's Sparrow , Roseate Tern , Sage Thrasher , Kirtland's
	Warbler , Prothonotary Warbler , White-headed Woodpecker
REPTILES	Blue Racer , Lake Erie Water Snake , Night Snake , Sharp-tailed Snake , Leatherback Turtle
AMPHIBIANS	Northern Cricket Frog , Northern Leopard Frog , Oregon Spotted Frog , Rocky Mountain Tailed
	Frog , Tiger Salamander
FISHES	Nooksack Dace , Morrison Creek Lamprey , Atlantic Salmon , Benthic Paxton Lake Stickleback ,
	Benthic Vananda Creek Stickleback , Limnetic Paxton Lake Stickleback , Limnetic Vananda
	Creek Stickleback , Salish Sucker , Aurora Trout , Atlantic Whitefish
LEPIDOPTERANS	Island Blue , Taylor's Checkerspot , Maritime Ringlet
MOLLUSCS	Rayed Bean , Wavy-rayed Lampmussel , Mudpuppy Mussel , Hotwater Physa , Northern
	Riffleshell , Banff Springs Snail , Snuffbox
PLANTS	Gattinger's Agalinis , Skinner's Agalinis , Scarlet Ammannia , Eastern Mountain Avens , Deltoid
	Balsamroot , Bluehearts , Long's Braya , Tall Bugbane , Bashful Bulrush , Slender Bush-clover ,
	Water-plantain Buttercup , Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus , Pink Coreopsis , Tiny Cryptanthe ,
	Southern Maidenhair Fern , White Prairie Gentian , American Ginseng , Virginia Goat's-rue ,
	Showy Goldenrod , Small White Lady's Slipper , Seaside Birds-foot Lotus , Furbish's Lousewort ,
	Prairie Lupine , Pink Milkwort , Hoary Mountain-mint , Red Mulberry , Western Prairie Fringed
	Orchid , Bearded Owl-clover , Golden Paintbrush , Heart-leaved Plantain , Large Whorled
	Pagonia , Nodding Pagonia , Small Whorled Pogonia , Engelmann's Quillwort , Bear's foot
	Sanicle , False Hop Sedge , Juniper Sedge , Horsetail Spik-rush , Thread-leaved Sundew ,
	Pitcher's Thistle , Toothcup , Cucumber Tree , Drooping Trillium , Purple Twayblade , Barren's
	Willow , Spooted Wintergreen , Wood-poppy , Blunt-lobed Woodsia , Tall Woolly-heads
MOSSES	Poor Pocket Moss , Rigid Apple Moss
LICHENS	Centipede Seaside

MAMMALS	Pallid Bat , Wood Bison , Peary Caribou (Low Artic pop.) , Woodland Caribou (Boreal &
	Southern Mountain pop.) , Ermine (haldarum subspecies) , Townsend's Mole , Sea Otter ,
	Harbour Porpoise ,Pacific Water Shrew , Beluga Whale (Eastern Hudson pop.) , Humpback
	Whale , Killer Whale (Northeast Pacific northern resident & Northeast Pacifis transient pop.)
BIRDS	Least Bittern , Anatum Peregrine Falcon , Queen Charlotte Goshawk , Ross's Gull , Marbled
	Murrelet , Sprague's Pipit , Prairie Loggerhead Shrike , Hooded Warbler
REPTILES	Butler's Gartersnake , Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake , Black Rat Snake , Eastern Fox Snake ,
	Eastern Hog-nosed Snake , Queen Snake , Blanding's Turtle , Spiny Softshell Turtle
AMPHIBIANS	Allegheny Salamander , Dusky Mountain , Jefferson Salamander , Pacific Giant Salamander ,
	Great Basin Spadefoot , Fowler's Toad
FISHES	Lake Chubsucker , Blackfin Cisco , Shortjaw Cisco , Shortnose Cisco , Channel Darter , Eastern
	Sand Darter , Spotted Gar , Cowlchan Lake Lamprey , Margined Madtom , Western Silvery
	Minnow , Black Redhorse , Copper Redhorse , Cultus Pygmy Sculpin , Deepwater Sculpin ,
	Shorthead Sculpin ,Rosyface Shiner , Lake Utopia Dwarf Smelt , Enos Lake Stickleback , Lake
	Whitefish , Northern Wolffish , Spotted Wolffish
LEPIDOPTERANS	Behr's Hairstreak (Columbia) , Dun Skipper
MOLLUSCS	Northern Abalone
PLANTS	Anticosti Aster , Western Silver-leaved Aster , White Wood Aster , White-top Aster , Dense
	Blazing Star , Western Blue-flag , Fernald's Braya , Buffalograss , American Chestnut ,
	Kentucky Coffee-tree , Colicroot , Scouler's Corydalis , Deerberry , Mexican Mosquito Fern ,
	Plymouth Gentian , Golden Crest , Goldenseat , Round-leaved Greenbrier , van Brunt's Jacob's
	Ladder , Lyall's Mariposa Lily , Small-flowered Lipocarpha , Slender Mouse-ear-cress , Phantom
	Orchid , Hairy Prairie-clover , Redroot , Purple Sanicle , Soapweed , Western Spiderwort ,
	Tubercled Spike-rush , Sand Verbena , Bird's-foot Violet , Yellow Montane Violet ,
	Water-pennywort , American Water-willow
MOSS	Haller's Apple Moss

MAMMALS	Fringed Bat , Keen's Long-eared Bat , Spotted Bat , Grizzly Bear , Polar Bear , Mountain
	Beaver , Nuttall's Cottontail , Grey Fox , Ord's Kangaroo Rat , Eastern Mole , Western Harvest
	Mouse , Black-tailed Prairie Dog , Harbour Seal , Gaspe Shrew , Southern Flying Squirrel ,
	Woodland Vole , Beluga Whale (Eastern High Artic pop.) , Blue Whale , Fin Whale , Humpback
	Whale (Western North Atlantic pop.) , Killer Whale (Northeast Pacific offshore pop.) ,
	Northern Bottlenose Whale , Sowerby's Beaked Whale , Eastern Wolf , Wolverine (Western
	pop.)
BIRDS	Eastern Yellow-breasted Chat , Long-billed Curlew , Harlequin Duck , Peale's Peregrine Falcon ,
	Tundra Peregrine Falcon , Barrow's Goldeneye , Ivory Gull , Ferruginous Hawk , Red-shouldered
	Hawk , Pacific Great Blue Heron , Ancient Murrelet , Barn Owl , Flammulated Owl , Short-eared
	Owl
REPTILES	Eastern Short-horned Lizard , Eastern Yellow-belled Racer , Five-lined Skink , Northern Prairie
	Skink , Spotted Turtle , Wood Turtle
AMPIHIBIANS	Coast Tailed Frog , Northern Leopard Frog , Northern REd-leeged Frog , Coeur d'Alene
	Salamander , Smallmouth Salamander , Spring Salamander , Great Palins Toad
FISHES	Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Buffalo , Silver Chub , Spring Cisco , Atlantic Cod , Redside Dace ,
	SpeckledDace , Umatilla Dace , Greenside Darter , Klyl , Chestnut Lamprey , Northern Brook
	Lamprey , Northern Madtom , Pugnose Minnow , Pighead Prickleback , River Redhorse , Pacific
	Sardine , Columbia Mottled Sculpin , Fourhorn Sculpin , Bigmouth Shiner , Bridle Shiner ,
	Pugnose Shiner , Silver Shiner , Charlotte Stickleback , Unarmoured , Giant Stickleback , Green
	Sturgeon , Shortnose Sturgeon , White Sturgeon , Spotted Sucker , Orangespotted Sunfish ,
	redbreasted Sunfish ,Blackstripe Topminnow , Warmouth , Squanga Whitefish , Atlantic
	Wolffish , Bering Wolffish
LEPIDOPTERANS	Monarch , Weidemeyer's Admiral
MOLLUSCS	Olympia Oyster
PLANTS	Blue Ash , Bathurst Aster , Crooked-stem Aster , Gulf of St. Lawrence Aster , Willow Aster ,
	Branched Bartonia , Vancouver Island Beggarticks , Long's Bulrush , American Columbo ,
	American Hart's-tongue Fern , Broad Beech Fern , Coastal Wood Fern , Provancher's Fleabane,
	Victorin's Gentian , Riddell's Goldenrod , Smooth Goosefoot , Green Dragon , Dwarf Hackberry ,
	Mackenzie Hairgrass , Giant Helleborine , Common Hop-tree , Wild Hyacinth , Tuberous
	Indian-plantain , lilaeopsis , Hare-footed locoweed , Macoun's Meadowfoam , Fernaid's
	Milk-vetch , Shumard Oak , Eastern Prairie Orchid , Fringed , Sweet Pepperbush , Hill's
	Pondweed , Bolander's Quillwort , Climbing Prairie Rose , Swamp Rose-mallow , False
	Rue-anemone , New Jersey Rush , Floccose Tansy , Athabasca Thrift , Victorin's
	Water-hemlock , Felt-leaf Willow , Sand-dune Short-capsuled Willow , Turnor's Willow ,
	Tall Woolly-heads , Large-headed Yarrow , Woolly
LICHENS	Cryptic Paw , Oldgrowth Speckleberry , Seaside Bone

MAMMALS	American Badger (taxus subspecies) , American Black Bear , Woodland Caribou (Newfoundland &
	Northern Mountain pop.) , Nuttall's Cottontail (Prairie pop.) , Atlantic White-sided Dolphin ,
	Bottlenose Dolphin , Common Dolphin , Northern Right Dolphin , Whale , Pacific White-sided Dolphin ,
	Risso's Dolphin , Striped Dolphin , White-beaked Dolphin , Plains Pocket Gopher , Canada Lynx ,
	Narwhal , Dall's Porpoise , California Sea Lion , Steller Sea Lion , Bearded Seal , Grey Seal , Harbour
	Seal , Hooded Seal , Northern Elephant Seal , Northern Fur Seal , Ringed Seal , Cascade Mantled
	Ground Squirrel , Fox Squirrel , Atlantis Walrus , Long-tailed Weasel , Baird's Beaked Whale , Beluga
	Whale (Western Hudson Bay & Beaufort Sea/Artic Ocean pop.) , Blainville'sBeaked Whale , Cuvier's
	Beaked Whale , False Killer Whale , Grey Whale (Northeast Pacific pop.) , Hubb's Beaked Whale ,
	Long-finned Whale , Northern Bottlenose Whale , Pygmy Sperm Whale , Short-finned Whale ,
	Sperm Whale , Stejneger's Beaked Whale , True's Beaked Whale , Northern Grey Wolf , Southern
	Grey Wolf
BIRDS	Eastern Bluebird , Western Yellow-breasted Chat (Prairie pop.) , American Coot , Double-crested
	Cormorant , Greater Sand-hill Crane , Bald Eagle , Golden Eagle , Prairie Falcon , Grey Flycatcher ,
	Northern Goshawk , Red-necked Grebe , Gyrfalcon , Northern Harrier , Cooper's Hawk , Red-tailed
	Hawk , Rough-legged Hawk , Sharp-shined Hawk , Common Loon , Yellow-billed Loon , Merlin ,
	Boreal Owl , Great Grey Owl , Northern Hawk Owl , Snowy Owl , American White Pelican , Eastern
	Screech Owl , Baird's Sparrow , Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow , Trumpeter Swan , Black Tern ,
	Caspian Tern , Common Tern , Prairie Warbler , Canyon Wren , Sedge Wren
REPTILES	Western Yellow-bellied Racer
	Ensatina , Columbia Spotted Frog , Northern Leopard Frog (Eastern pop.) , Pikerel Frog , Western
	Chous Frog , Mudpuppy , Four-toed Salamander , Northern Dusky Salamander , Northwestern
	Salamander , Tiger Salamander (Prairie/Boreal pop.) , Western Salamander , Cope's Grey
	Red-backed Treefrog
FISHES	Bloater , Hornyhead Chub , River Chub , Leopard Dace , Least Darter , River Darter , Tesselated
	Darter , Blueback Herring , Banded Killfish (Mainland pop.) , Brindled Madtom , Bluntnose Minnow ,
	Cutlips Minnows , Eastern Silvery Minnow , Chain Pikerel , Redfin Pikerel , Golden Redhorse ,
	Fourhorn Sculpin (Salt water form) , Spoonhead Sculpin , Blackchin Shiner , Ghost Shiner , Redfin
	Shiner , Rosyface Shiner (Eastern pop.) , Striped Shiner , Weed Shiner , Brook Silverside , Central
	Stoneroller , Lake Sturgeon , Mountain Sucker , Green Sunfish , Longear Sunfish , Y-Prickleback
MOLLUSCS	Rocky Mountain Capshell
PLANTS	Short's Aster , Yukon Aster , Large-flowered Brickellia , Fameflower , Dwarf Fleabane , Northern
	Mock Goldenweed , False Mermaid , Blue Phlox , Rush Pink , Pacific Rhododendron , Wood's
	Sagebrush, Nebraska Sedge , Sand Stitchwort , Narrow-leaved Wallflower , Tyrrell's Willow ,
	Slender Wooly-heads

MAMMALS	Cougar (Eastern pop.) , Western Harvest Mouse (Prairie pop.) , Harbour Porpoise (Pacific Ocean
	pop.) , Harbour Seal (Atlantic & Artic coastal waters) , Sagebrush Vole , Dwarf Sperm Whale ,
	Killer Whale (Northwest Atlantic/Eastern Artic pop.) , Artic Grey Wolf
BIRDS	Common Poorwill , Western ScreechOwl , Forster's Tern
FISHES	Flathead Catfish , Chiselmouth , Bering Cisco , Darktail Lamprey , Spinynose Sculpin , Lake Whitefish
	(Mira River pop.)
MOLLUSCS	Rocky Mountain Capshell (Eastern pop.) , Gatineau Tadpole Snail
PLANTS	Little Barley , Rabbit-brush Goldenweed , Impoverished Pinweed , Kananaskis Whitlow-grass

The next 2 charts explain the status changes in species by COSEWIC on November 2001

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