*Note: “At risk” not only includes Federal and state protection levels, but
also non-regulatory listings by either researchers studying the species or
by The Nature Conservancy’s Natural Heritage Program, which catalogues rare
plant and animal species. (From
Mobile Bay NEP)
FISH
The
Gulf sturgeon is the only federally threatened or endangered fish known to
occur in Mobile
Bay
OTHER
Threatened and Endangered terrestrial plants and animals within the Mobile
Bay Watershed are numerous.
Mammals:
Alabama beach mouse
West Indian manatee
Birds:
bald eagle
peregrine falcon
piping plover
red-cockaded woodpecker
wood stork
Reptiles:
Alabama red-bellied turtle
eastern indigo snake
gopher tortoise
loggerhead sea turtle
Insects:
American burrying beetle
Plants:
Alabama canebrake pitcher-plant
American chaffseed
Louisiana quillwort
Mohr's Barbara's buttons
