| Scientific Name | Common Name |
| Anas rubripes | American Black Duck |
| Corvus brachyrhynchos | American Crow |
| Carduelis tristis | American Goldfinch |
| Turdus migratorius | American Robin |
| Cyanocitta cristata | Blue Jay |
| Anas discors | Blue-winged Teal |
| Poecile carolinensis | Carolina Chickadee |
| Thryothorus ludovicianus | Carolina Wren |
| Spizella passerina | Chipping Sparrow |
| Quiscalus quiscula | Common Grackle |
| Gallinago gallinago | Common Snipe |
| Geothlypis trichas | Common Yellowthroat |
| Junco hyemalis | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Picoides pubescens | Downy Woodpecker |
| Tyrannus tyrannus | Eastern Kingbird |
| Sturnella magna | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Contopus virens | Eastern Wood-Pewee |
| Sturnus vulgaris | European Starling |
| Spizella pusilla | Field Sparrow |
| Dumetella carolinensis | Gray Catbird |
| Myiarchus crinitus | Great Crested Flycatcher |
| Anas crecca | Green-winged Teal |
| Catharus guttatus | Hermit Thrush |
| Eremophila alpestris | Horned Lark |
| Troglodytes aedon | House Wren |
| Passerina cyanea | Indigo Bunting |
| Charadrius vociferus | Killdeer |
| Aythya affinis | Lesser Scaup |
| Anas platyrhynchos | Mallard |
| Zenaida macroura | Mourning Dove |
| Colinus virginianus | Northern Bobwhite |
| Cardinalis cardinalis | Northern Cardinal |
| Colaptes auratus | Northern Flicker |
| Circus cyaneus | Northern Harrier |
| Anas clypeata | Northern Shoveler |
| Podilymbus podiceps | Pied-billed Grebe |
| Melanerpes carolinus | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
| Agelaius phoeniceus | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Phasianus colchicus | Ring-necked Pheasant |
| Pipilo erythrophthalmus | Eastern Towhee |
| Melospiza melodia | Song Sparrow |
| Baeolophus bicolor | Tufted Titmouse |
| Cathartes aura | Turkey Vulture |
| Vireo gilvus | Warbling Vireo |
| Sitta carolinensis | White-breasted Nuthatch |
| Aix sponsa | Wood Duck |
| Catharus mustelinus | Wood Thrush |
This checklist is complied by Dave Horn. Numbers shown are two-year totals from surverys in 2001 – 2002
| Species | Number |
| Black Swallowtail |
14
|
| Tiger Swallowtail |
16
|
| Checkered White |
1
|
| Cabbage Butterfly |
1249
|
| Clouded Sulphur |
26
|
| Alfalfa Butterfly |
95
|
| Little Sulphur |
1
|
| Bronze Copper |
5
|
| Banded Hairstreak |
1
|
| Gray Hairstreak |
1
|
| Eastern Tailed Blue |
29
|
| Spring Azure |
137
|
| American Snout |
12
|
| Great Spangled Fritillary |
3
|
| Pearl Crescent |
164
|
| Question Mark |
37
|
| Comma |
43
|
| Mourning Cloak |
8
|
| Red Admiral |
71
|
| American Painted Lady |
11
|
| Painted Lady |
15
|
| Buckeye |
21
|
| Red-spotted Purple |
2
|
| Viceroy |
1
|
| Hackberry Butterfly |
93
|
| Tawny Emperor |
10
|
| Northern Pearly Eye |
3
|
| Little Wood Satyr |
1
|
| Common Wood Nymph |
1
|
| Monarch |
64
|
| Silver-spotted Skipper |
64
|
| Checkered Skipper |
50
|
| Common Sooty Wing |
7
|
| Least Skipper |
175
|
| Peck’s Skipper |
9
|
| Northern Broken Dash Skipper |
2
|
| Hobomok Skipper |
3
|
| Zabulon Skipper |
1
|
This list of Calamus Swamp mammals is organized alphabetically by scientific name.
| Scientific Name | Common Name |
| Didelphis marsupialis | Opossum |
| Marmota monax | Groundhog |
| Odocoileus virginiana | White-tailed Deer |
| Ondatra zibethica | Muskrat |
| Procyon lotor | Raccoon |
| Sciurus caroliniensis | Gray Squirrel |
| Tamias striatus | Eastern Chipmunk |
This list of Calamus Swamp reptiles and amphibians is organized alphabetically by scientific name.
| Scientific Name | Common Name |
| Acris crepitans | Cricket Frog |
| Ambystoma tigrinum | Eastern Tiger Salamander |
| Chelydra serpentina | Snapping Turtle |
| Chrysemys picta | Painted Turtle |
| Hyla crucifer | Spring Peeper |
| Hyla versicolor | Gray Treefrog |
| Nerodia sipedon | Common Water Snake |
| Pseudacris triseriata | Striped Chorus Frog |
| Rana catesbeiana | Bullfrog |
| Rana clamitans | Green Frog |
| Rana pipiens | Northern Leopard Frog |
| Thamnophis sirtalis | Garter Snake |
This list of Calamus Swamp flora is organized alphabetically by scientific name.
| Scientific Name | Common Name |
| Acer megundo | Boxelder |
| Acer rubrum | Red Maple |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple |
| Acorus calamus | Sweet Flag |
| Alisma subcordatum | Southern Water-plantain |
| Alliaria petiolata | Garlic-mustard |
| Allium sp. | Wild Onion |
| Amaranthus tuberculatus | Amaranth |
| Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Common Ragweed |
| Ambrosia trifida | Giant Ragweed |
| Anthemis cotula | Dogfennel |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed |
| Aster pilosus | Awl-aster |
| Aster spp. | Wild Aster |
| Bidens cernua | Bur-marigold |
| Bidens comosa | Strawstem Beggar-ticks |
| Bidens connata | Purplestem Beggar-ticks |
| Bidens frondosa | Devil’s Beggar-ticks |
| Bidens vulgata | Tall Beggar-ticks |
| Boehmeria cylindrica | False Nettle |
| Campanula americana | Tall Bellflower |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet-creeper |
| Carex comosa | Bearded Sedge |
| Carex crinita | Sedge |
| Carex cristatella | Crested Sedge |
| Carex frankii | Frank’s Sedge |
| Carex lupulina | Hop Sedge |
| Carex sp. | Sedge |
| Carex stricta | Tussock Sedge |
| Carex tribuloides | Sedge |
| Carex vulpinoidea | Fox Sedge |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory |
| Celtis occidentalis | Northern Hackberry |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Buttonbush |
| Ceratophyllum demersum | Coontail |
| Cercis canadensis | Redbud |
| Cichorium intybus | Chicory |
| Cicuta maculata | Common Water-hemlock |
| Cirsium arvense | Canada Thistle |
| Cirsium muticum | Swamp Thistle |
| Convolvulus sepium | Bindweed |
| Cornus amomum | Knob-styled Dogwood |
| Cornus stolonifera | Red osier-dogwood |
| Crataegus sp. | Hawthorn |
| Cuscuta gronovii | Common Dodder |
| Cyperus esculentus | Yellow Nutsedge |
| Cyperus ferruginescens | Flatsedge |
| Daucus carota | Wild Carrot |
| Decodon verticillatus | Swamp Loosestrife |
| Echinochloa erusgalli | Barnyard-grass |
| Elymus riparius | Streambank Wild Rye |
| Elymus virginicus | Virginia Wild Rye |
| Epilobium coloratum | Eastern Willow-herb |
| Erigeron annuus | Annual Fleabane |
| Erigeron sp. | Daisy |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common Boneset |
| Eupatorium rugosum | White Snakeroot |
| Fragaria virginiana | Wild Strawberry |
| Fragaria vesca | Thin-leaved Wild Strawberry |
| Fraxinus nigra | Black Ash |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash |
| Galeopsis ladanum | Hemp-nettle |
| Galium sp. | Bedstraw |
| Galium tinctorium | Southern Three-lobed Bedstraw |
| Geum canadense | White Avens |
| Geum laciniatum | Rough Avens |
| Glechoma hederacea | Gill-over-the-ground |
| Glyceria septentrionalis | Eastern Mannagrass |
| Glyceria striata | Fowl-mannagrass |
| Hibiscus laevis | Halberd-leaved Rose Mallow |
| Impatiens capensis | Orange Touch-me-not |
| Ipomoea pandurata | Wild Potato |
| Iris pseudacorus | Yellow Flag |
| Iris versicolor | Northern Blue Flag |
| Juglans nigra | Black Walnut |
| Juncus effusus | Soft Rush |
| Juncus nodosus | Rush |
| Juncus tenuis | Path-rush |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice cut-grass |
| Lemna minor | Lesser Duckweed |
| Lespedeza repens | Smooth Trailing Lespedeza |
| Lindernia dubia | False Pimpernel |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great Lobelia |
| Lotus corniculatus | Birdsfoot-trefoil |
| Lycopus americanus | American Water-horehound |
| Lycopus virginicus | Bugleweed |
| Lythrum. alatum | Winged Loosestrife |
| Maclura pomifera | Osage-orange |
| Medicago lupulina | Black Medick |
| Menispermum canadense | Moonseed |
| Mentha arvenis | Field Mint |
| Mentha piperita | Peppermint |
| Mentha x citrata | Lemon Mint |
| Mimulus alatus | Winged Monkeyflower |
| Mimulus ringens | Allegheny Monkeyflower |
| Morus alba | White Mulberry |
| Nuphar advena | Yellow Pond Lily |
| Oenothera biennis | Common Evening-primrose |
| Oxalis europaea | Wood-sorel |
| Oxalis stricta | Common Yellow Wood-sorel |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia-creeper |
| Penthorum sedoides | Ditch Stone-crop |
| Phalaris arundinacea | Reed Canary-grass |
| Phytolacca americana | Pokeweed |
| Pilea pumila | Clearweed |
| Plantago major | Common Plantain |
| Poa alsodes | Bluegrass |
| Podophyllum pelatum | May-apple |
| Polygonum amphibium | Water Smartweed |
| Polygonum convolvulus | Black Bindweed |
| Polygonum hydropiperoides | Mild Water-pepper |
| Polygonum pensylvanicum | Pennsylvania Smartweed |
| Polygonum persicaria | Lady’s Thumb |
| Polygonum virginianum | Jumpseed |
| Populus deltoides | Cottonwood |
| Potamogeton epihydrus var. nuttallii | Ribbonleaf Pondweed |
| Potamogeton foliosus | Leafy Pondweed |
| Prunus serotina | Wild Black Cherry |
| Quercus bicolor | Swamp White Oak |
| Quercus rubra | Red Oak |
| Ranunculus flabellaris | Coastal plain Spearwort |
| Ranunculus sceleratus | Cursed Crowfoot |
| Rorippa palustris | Common Yellow-cress |
| Rosa multiflora | Multiflora-rose |
| Rosa palustris | Swamp-rose |
| Rubus allegheniensis | Common Blackberry |
| Rubus occidentalis | Black Raspberry |
| Rumex crispus | Curly Dock |
| Rumex verticillatus | Water Dock |
| Sagittaria latifolia | Common Arrow-head |
| Salix exigua | Sandbar Willow |
| Salix nigra | Black Willow |
| Samolus floribundus | Water-pimpernel |
| Sanicula gregaria | Cluster-sanicle |
| Scirpus atrovirens | Black Bulrush |
| Scirpus fiuviatilis | River Bulrush |
| Scutellaria lateriflora | Mad-dog Skullcap |
| Setaria faberi | Nodding Foxtail-grass |
| Setaria glauca | Yellow Foxtail-grass |
| Sium suave | Water-parsnip |
| Smilax hispida | Greenbriar |
| Solanum dulcamara | Bittersweet Nightshade |
| Solidago canadensis | Common Goldenrod |
| Sonchus arvensis | Sow-thistle |
| Sorghum halepense | Johnson-grass |
| Sparganium eurycarpum | Giant Bur-reed |
| Spirodela polyrhiza | Greater Duckweed |
| Stachys palustris | Hedge-nettle |
| Taraxicum officinale | Dandelion |
| Teucrium canadense | American Germander |
| Toxicodendron radicans | Common Poison-ivy |
| Trifolium pratense | Red Clover |
| Typha angustifolia | Narrow-leaved Cat-tail |
| Typha latifolia | Broad-leaved Cat-tail |
| Ulmus americana | American Elm |
| Ulmus rubra | Slippery Elm |
| Urtica procera | Stinging Nettle |
| Utricularia gibba | Humped Bladderwort |
| Utricularia vulgaris | Common Bladderwort |
| Verbascum thapsus | Common Mullein |
| Verbena urticifolia | White Vervain |
| Verbesina alternifolia | Wingstem |
| Veronica scutellata | Marsh Speedwell |
| Viola sororia | Common Blue Violet |
| Vitis aestivalis | Summer-grape |
| Vitis riparia | Riverbank Grape |
| Vitis vulpina | Frost-grape |
| Wolffia columbiana | Water-meal |
| Wolffia papulifera | Pointed Water-meal |
This list of other organisms at Calamus Swamp is organized alphabetically by scientific name.
| Scientific Name | Common Name |
| Ablabesmyia peleensis | A non-biting midge |
| Acilius sp. | Genus of diving beetles |
| Acricotopus sp. | Genus of non-biting midges |
| Aedes sp. | Genus of mosquito |
| Aeshna umbrosa | Shadow Darner (dragonfly) |
| Aeshnidae | Genus of darners (dragonflies) |
| Agabetes acuductus | A predaceous diving beetle |
| Agabus disintegratus | Disintegrated Diving Beetle |
| Agabus sp. | Genus of predatory diving beetles |
| Agrypnia sp. | Genus of the “Giant Casemaker” caddisflies |
| Anax junius | Green darner (dragonfly) |
| Asellus sp. | Aquatic Sowbug |
| Belostoma sp. | Genus of Giant Waterbugs |
| Berosus sp. | Genus of aquatic beetles |
| Buenoa sp. | Genus of small backswimmers |
| Caecidotea sp. | Genus of small freshwater crustaceans |
| Callibaetis sp. | |
| Cambarus diogenes | Common Burrowing Crawfish |
| Celina sp. | Genus of predaceous diving beetles (family Dytiscidae) |
| Cercaria sp. | Fluke |
| Certopogonidae | |
| Chaoborus sp. | |
| Chauliodes rastricornis | Spring Fishfly |
| Chironomidae | |
| Chironomus (C.) decorus group | |
| Chironomus (C.) staegeri group | |
| Chironomus (Chaetolabis) sp. | |
| Chironomus (Lobochironomus) longipes | |
| Chlorella sp. | Plankton Alga |
| Chlorohydra viridissima | Hydra |
| Chrysops sp. | |
| Cladocera | |
| Cladophora sp. | Filamentous Alga |
| Coenagrionidae | |
| Copelatus sp. | |
| Copepoda | |
| Coptotomus sp. | |
| Corynoneura n.sp4 | |
| Crangonyx sp. | |
| Crangonyx sp. | Scud |
| Cybister fimbriolatus | |
| Cyclops vernalis | Spring Copepod |
| Diaptomus stagnalis | Red Copepod |
| Dineutus sp. | |
| Dytiscus sp. | |
| Endochironomus nigricans | |
| Enochrus sp. | |
| Erpobdella punctata | |
| Erpobdella punctata punctata | |
| Erythemis simplicicollis | |
| Eubranchipus vernalis | |
| Eubranchipus vernalis | Ohio Fairy shrimp |
| Fossaria sp. | |
| Gomphonema sp. | Diatom |
| Graphoderus sp. | |
| Gyraulus parvus | |
| Gyraulus sp. | |
| Haemopis marmorata | |
| Haemopis sp. | Horse Leech |
| Haliplus sp. | |
| Helisoma anceps anceps | |
| Helisoma trivolvis | Common Ramshorn Snail |
| Helobdella sp. | White Leech |
| Helobdella stagnalis | |
| Hesperocorixa sp. | |
| Hydaticus sp. | |
| Hydaticus sp. | Predaceous Diving Beetle |
| Hydra sp. | Hydra |
| Hdracarina | |
| Hydrellia sp. | |
| Hydrocanthus sp. | |
| Hydrochara sp. | |
| Hydrophilus sp. | |
| Hydroporus sp. | |
| Hygrotus sp. | |
| Ilybius sp. | |
| Ischnura sp. | |
| Kiefferulus sp. | |
| Laccophilus sp. | |
| Larsia sp. | |
| Lestes sp. | |
| Lestidae | |
| Lethocerus sp. | Giant Water Bugs |
| Limnephilus sp. | Caddisflies |
| Limnophyes sp. | |
| Lymnaea sp. | Pond Snail |
| Lynceus brachyurus | |
| Matus sp. | |
| Menetus (Micromenetus) brogniatianus | |
| Menetus exacuous | |
| Musculium partumeium | Swamp Fingernail Clam |
| Myxosargus sp. | |
| Navicula sp. | Diatom |
| Neoplea sp. | |
| Notonecta sp. | |
| Notonectidae | |
| Odontomyia (0.) sp. | |
| Oligochaeta | |
| Orthocladiinae | |
| Ostracoda | |
| Pachydiplax longipennis | |
| Parachironomus carinatus | |
| Parachironomus sp. | |
| Paracymus sp. | |
| Paratanytarsus sp. | |
| Pelocoris sp. | |
| Peltodytes sp. | |
| Physa sp. | Pouch Snail |
| Physella sp. | |
| Pisidium casertanum | Ubiquitous Pea Clam |
| Placobdella ornata | |
| Placobdella papillifera | Leech |
| Planorbella (Pierosoma) pilsbryi | |
| Placobdella sp. | Blood-sucking Leech |
| Plea striola | Pigmy Backswimmer |
| Polypedilum (p.) trigonus | |
| Promenetus exacuous | |
| Psectrocladius (Allopsectrocladius) sp. | |
| Psectrotanypus dyari | |
| Ranatra sp. | |
| Riccia fluitans | Slender Riccia |
| Ricciocarpus natans | Purple-fringed Riccia |
| Scirtidae | |
| Sigara sp. | |
| Sphaerium occidentale | |
| Sphaerium sp. | |
| Spongilla lacustris | |
| Stagnicola sp. | |
| Sympetrum sp. | Diatom |
| Synedra sp. | |
| Tanypodinae | |
| Tanypus carinatus | |
| Tanypus sp. | |
| Tanypus “punctipennis” (sensu Roback, 1977) | |
| Thermonectus sp. | |
| Tribonema sp. | Filamentous alga |
| Trichocorixa sp. | |
| Tropisternus sp. | |
| Turbellaria | |
| Vaucheria sp. | Filamentous alga |
| Volvox globator | Volvox |
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