EN15 Number of IUCN Red List species and national conservation list species with habitats in areas affected by operations, by level of extinction risk

[Many “common” species, such as mallard, red-winged blackbird, wood duck, etc., are on the IUCN Red List as “threatened” species.  For now, we have listed only those that are on the U.S. Threatened and Endangered list.]

AEP facilities are located within the ranges of the following U.S. federally threatened and endangered species:

Mammals

Indiana Bat

Birds

Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Interior least tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos)
Red-cockaded woodpecker (Piocodes borealis)
Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)
Black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapilla)
Golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia)
Whooping crane (Grus Americana)
Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri)

Freshwater Mussels

Green floater mussel (Lasmigona subviridis)

Ohio pigtoe (Pleurobema cordatum)
Rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum)
Sharp-ridge pocketbook (Lampsilis ovata)

Butterfly (Ellipsaria lineolata)
Monkey-face (Quadrula intermedia)

Rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrical)

Fish

Arkansas river shiner (Notropis girardi)
Roanoke logperch (Percina rex)

Invertebrates

American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus)
Fringed mountain snail (Polygriscus virginianus)

Flowers

Western prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera praeclara)