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City of Redwood City, Public Works Division Initial Study & Mitigated Negative Declaration <br />Document Date: October 15, 2015 <br />Revision Date: January 25, 2016 Page 18 Blankinship & Associates, Inc. <br /> <br />Common Name Scientific <br />Name Status Habitat <br />Habitat is not <br />Present in <br />Project Area; <br />Species <br />Eliminated <br />from Further <br />Consideration <br />Habitat is Present in <br />Project Area; <br />Species Eliminated <br />from Further <br />Consideration for <br />Reasons Given (see <br />numbered notes) <br />Potential <br />Risk is <br />Present <br />from <br />Project <br />Activities <br />BIRD <br />tricolored blackbird Agelaius tricolor SCSC <br />Freshwater and <br />brackish marshes of <br />cattails, tule, bulrushes <br />and sedges; <br />Cropland/hedgerow, <br />Grassland/herbaceous <br /> X (1) <br />grasshopper <br />sparrow <br />Ammodramus <br />savannarum SCSC <br />Dense grasslands on <br />rolling hills, lowland <br />plains, in valleys and <br />on hillsides on lower <br />mountain slopes <br />X <br />short-eared owl Asio flammeus SCSC <br />Salt and fresh swamp <br />lands, lowland meadow. <br />May nest in tule <br />patches and tall grass <br /> X (1) <br />burrowing owl Athene <br />cunicularia SCSC <br />Agriculture/rangeland, <br />grassland, parks with <br />open ground squirrel <br />burrows <br />X <br />Swainson's hawk Buteo swainsoni ST <br />Cropland/hedgerow, <br />Desert, <br />Grassland/herbaceous, <br />Savanna, Woodland - <br />Mixed <br />X <br />western snowy <br />plover <br />Charadrius <br />alexandrinus <br />nivosus <br />FT, <br />SCSC <br />Sandy beaches, alkali <br />lakeshores and dry <br />evaporation ponds; un- <br />vegetated open areas, <br />primarily in sand dunes, <br />for nest sites <br />X <br />mountain plover Charadrius <br />montanus SCSC <br />Recently plowed fields, <br />sparsely vegetated <br />fields, and pastureland <br />with little to no <br />vegetative growth <br />X <br />northern harrier Circus cyaneus SCSC <br />Coastal salt and fresh <br />water marsh. May nest <br />and forage in <br />grasslands and shrubby <br />vegetation, usually at <br />marsh edge. <br /> X (1) <br />western yellow- <br />billed cuckoo <br />Coccyzus <br />americanus <br />occidentalis <br />SE <br />Open woodland parks, <br />deciduous riparian <br />woodland; requires <br />patches of at least 10 <br />hectares (25 acres) of <br />dense riparian forest <br />with a canopy cover of <br />at least 50 percent in <br />both the understory and <br />overstory <br />X <br />saltmarsh <br />common <br />yellowthroat <br />Geothlypis <br />trichas sinuosa SCSC <br />Fresh and salt water <br />marshes. May nest in <br />tule patches, tall <br />grasses, and willows. <br /> X (1) <br />6.3.A. - Page 26