FINGERLAKES WILDLIFENY FOREST PRESENTATION

By: Kai Jackson

Cooper

Garlic mustard

Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is an allelopathic herb that can inhibit tree seedling

CONDITIONS AND TEMPERATURE The average rainfall and temperature

range for this ecosystem there a monthly precipitation and temperature range.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Avg. High 30° 32° 42° 55° 67° 75° 80° 78° 71° 60° 47° 35°

Avg. Low 16° 16° 25° 35° 46° 54° 58° 57° 51° 41° 34° 22°

Mean 24° 25° 34° 46° 57° 65° 70° 68° 62° 51° 41° 28°

Avg. Precip.

2.1 in 2.1 in 2.3 in 2.6 in 2.7 in 3.0 in 2.7 in 3.4 in 3.0 in 2.4 in 2.9 in 2.7 in

Degrees in Fahrenheit

FINGERLAKES ECOSYTEM The Finger lakes National Forest is

composed of 16,212 acres and consisted of many different species. Including different plants.( FAUNA and FLORA)

FINGER LAKES FAUNA(ANIMALS)

Barred Owl Photo

The major species of fauna in the Finger Lakes Forest ecosystem are mostly consisted of Raptors( owls and birds)

Strix Varia) Buteo Lagopus) (Buteo Platypterus) (Accipter Striatus)

Northern HarrierNorthern Harrier (Circus Cyaneus) This raptor favors opem grasslands and marshes. It hunts by flying slowly low above ground levelsearching for rodents.

Red Shouldered HawkRed Shouldered Hawk (Buteo Lineatus) The Red Shouldered Hawkis the common forest dwelling hawk of the east.It also favors woodlands near water.

Red Tailed Hawkwk

Here are a few pictures of the fauna in the Finger Lakes Ecosystem.

Strix Varia) Buteo Lagopus) (Buteo Platypterus) (Accipter Striatus)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Northern HarrierNorthern Harrier (Circus Cyaneus) This raptor favors opem grasslands and marshes. It hunts by flying slowly low above ground levelsearching for rodents.

The Northern Harrier(Circus Cyaneus)

Northern Harrier

The Northern Harrier favors open grasslands and hunts by flying slowly low above theground looking for small insects.

Cooper’s Hawk(Accipter Cooperii)

Cooper

Among the bird world’s most skillful fliers, Cooper’s Hawks are common woodland hawks that tear through cluttered tree canopies in high speed pursuit of other birds.

Eastern Screech Owl(Otus Asio)

The Eastern Screech-Owl is found in nearly every habitat throughout the eastern United States and southern Canada. It is common in urban as well as rural areas and readily nests in nest boxes.

AMERICAN KETSREL(Falco sparverius)

American Kestrel Photo

Perhaps the most colorful raptor in the world, the American Kestrel is the most common falcon in North America. It is found from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, and in towns as well as wild lands.

Here’s the rest of the following fauna species in the Finger lakes forest ecosystem .These are following scientific names

Click icon to add pictureFalco Sparverius) (Buteo Jamaicensis) Strix Varia) Buteo Lagopus) (Buteo Platypterus) (Accipter Striatus) Otus Asio) (Bubo Virginianus) Asio Otus)(Accipter Gentilis)(Circus Cyaneus) Buteo Lineatus)

Here are some photos and descriptions of the flora species in the Finger Lakes Forest ecosystem.

Common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), in addition to being nasty to walk through, provides wildlife food of poor nutritional quality.

Joe pye weedJoe-pye weed (Eupatorium maculatum) is one of the many native plants that can work well in moist soils in a local landscape

Multiflora rose

MULTIFLORA ROSE(Rosa multiflora)

(Rosa multiflora) is one of several widespread NNIS on lands adjacent to the FLNF. Photograph by Leslie J. Mehrhoff of the Invasive Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE).

Multiflora roseMultiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) is one of several widespread NNIS on lands adjacent to the FLNF. Photograph by Leslie J. Mehrhoff of the Invasive Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE).

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JAPANESE BARBERRY(Berberis thunbergii)The Japanese barberry is native to Asia. It has established and reproduced throughout the wild and has spread in the far north.

Japanese barberry

Garlic Mustard(Alliaria petiolata)

Garlic mustard

The Alliara Petila is very native to Europe and Asia. It can also spread quickly along side roads and flooded stream banks and forest under stories.

GIANT HOGWEED(Heracleum mantegazzianum)The giant hogweed is native in central Asia.

Giant hogweed

Hogweed can produce flattened, oval dry fruits.

Common Bittersweet(Celastrus scandens)

Common Bittersweet

food food Here is the food

web for this ecosystem. The fauna and flora in the ecosystem are interdependent. Most of the ecosystem is composed of consumers and carnivores that hunt, like the Northern harrier.