Animal Tracking Lists
Updated June 21, 2011
The Alberta Conservation Information Management System is compiling detailed information on known locations of the following elements. The Provincial Ranks (S Rank) have been assigned with the assistance of experts and the use of published/non-published data. The Global Ranks (G Rank) were provided by The Nature Conservancy.
If you discover an occurrence, or have new information on existing occurrences, for any of the elements on this list, please contact:
Drajs Vujnovic, Parks Zoologist
Alberta Conservation Information Management System
ph:780-427-7159
fax:780-427-5980
e-mail: Drajs.Vujnovic@gov.ab.ca
Vertebrata
Mammals
| Grizzly Bear |
Ursus arctos horribilis
|
S2 |
G4T3T4 |
| Hoary Bat |
Lasiurus cinereus
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Long-legged Bat |
Myotis volans
|
SU |
G5 |
| Nearctic Brown Lemming |
Lemmus trimucronatus
|
SU |
G5 |
| Northern Long-eared Bat |
Myotis septentrionalis
|
S2S3 |
G4 |
| Olive-backed Pocket Mouse |
Perognathus fasciatus
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Ord's Kangaroo Rat |
Dipodomys ordii
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Prairie Vole |
Microtus ochrogaster
|
S3S4 |
G5 |
| Red Bat |
Lasiurus borealis
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Red-tailed Chipmunk |
Neotamias ruficaudus
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Silver-haired Bat |
Lasionycteris noctivagans
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Swift Fox |
Vulpes velox
|
S1 |
G3 |
| Taiga Vole |
Microtus xanthognathus
|
SH |
G5 |
| Wandering Shrew |
Sorex vagrans
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Water Vole |
Microtus richardsoni
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Western Small-footed Bat |
Myotis ciliolabrum
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Wolverine |
Gulo gulo
|
S3 |
G4 |
| Wood Bison |
Bison bison athabascae
|
S1 |
G4T2Q |
| Woodland Caribou -- boreal ecotype |
Rangifer tarandus pop. 14
|
S2 |
G5TNR |
| Woodland Caribou -- mountain ecotype |
Rangifer tarandus pop. 1
|
S1 |
G5T2Q |
Birds
| American White Pelican |
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
|
S2S3 |
G4 |
| Arctic Tern |
Sterna paradisaea
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Baird's Sparrow |
Ammodramus bairdii
|
S3 |
G4 |
| Black Swift |
Cypseloides niger
|
SU |
G4 |
| Blackburnian Warbler |
Dendroica fusca
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
Nycticorax nycticorax
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Bullock's Oriole |
Icterus bullockii
|
SU |
G5 |
| Canada Warbler |
Wilsonia canadensis
|
S3S4 |
G5 |
| Caspian Tern |
Hydroprogne caspia
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Cassin's Finch |
Carpodacus cassinii
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Cassin's Vireo |
Vireo cassinii
|
SU |
G5 |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler |
Dendroica pensylvanica
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Clark's Grebe |
Aechmophorus clarkii
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Common Nighthawk |
Chordeiles minor
|
S4 |
G5 |
| Common Poorwill |
Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
|
SU |
G5 |
| Ferruginous Hawk |
Buteo regalis
|
S2S3 |
G4 |
| Forster's Tern |
Sterna forsteri
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush |
Catharus minimus
|
SU |
G5 |
| Great-crested Flycatcher |
Myiarchus crinitus
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Greater Sage-Grouse |
Centrocercus urophasianus urophasianus
|
S1 |
G4TU |
| Harlequin Duck |
Histrionicus histrionicus
|
S3 |
G4 |
| Hooded Merganser |
Lophodytes cucullatus
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Loggerhead Shrike |
Lanius ludovicianus
|
S3 |
G4 |
| Long-billed Curlew |
Numenius americanus
|
S3 |
G5 |
| McCown's Longspur |
Calcarius mccownii
|
S3S4 |
G4 |
| Mew Gull |
Larus canus
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Mountain Plover |
Charadrius montanus
|
S1 |
G3 |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher |
Contopus cooperi
|
S3 |
G4 |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher |
Contopus cooperi
|
S4 |
G4 |
| Pacific Loon |
Gavia pacifica
|
SU |
G5 |
| Peregrine Falcon |
Falco peregrinus
|
S2S3 |
G4 |
| Piping Plover |
Charadrius melodus circumcinctus
|
S2 |
G3T3 |
| Red Knot |
Calidris canutus rufa
|
SU |
G4T2 |
| Red-breasted Merganser |
Mergus serrator
|
SNR |
G5 |
| Red-throated Loon |
Gavia stellata
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Rusty Blackbird |
Euphagus carolinus
|
S4 |
G4 |
| Sage Thrasher |
Oreoscoptes montanus
|
SU |
G5 |
| Sedge Wren |
Cistothorus platensis
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Semipalmated Plover |
Charadrius semipalmatus
|
SU |
G5 |
| Short-billed Dowitcher |
Limnodromus griseus
|
SU |
G5 |
| Short-eared Owl |
Asio flammeus
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Sprague's Pipit |
Anthus spragueii
|
S3S4 |
G4 |
| Surf Scoter |
Melanitta perspicillata
|
SNR |
G5 |
| Trumpeter Swan |
Cygnus buccinator
|
S2S3 |
G4 |
| Trumpeter Swan |
Cygnus buccinator
|
S3 |
G4 |
| Turkey Vulture |
Cathartes aura
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Vaux's Swift |
Chaetura vauxi
|
SU |
G5 |
| Virginia Rail |
Rallus limicola
|
SU |
G5 |
| Western Burrowing Owl |
Athene cunicularia hypugaea
|
S2 |
G4T4 |
| White-faced Ibis |
Plegadis chihi
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Whooping Crane |
Grus americana
|
S1 |
G1 |
| Willow Ptarmigan |
Lagopus lagopus
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Wood Duck |
Aix sponsa
|
SU |
G5 |
| Yellow Rail |
Coturnicops noveboracensis
|
SU |
G4 |
| Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
Empidonax flaviventris
|
SU |
G5 |
Reptiles
| Eastern Yellowbelly Racer |
Coluber constrictor flaviventris
|
SU |
G5T5 |
| Mountain Short-horned Lizard |
Phrynosoma hernandesi
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Painted Turtle |
Chrysemys picta belli
|
S1 |
G5T5 |
| Plains Hognose Snake |
Heterodon nasicus nasicus
|
S2 |
G5T5 |
| Prairie Rattlesnake |
Crotalus viridis
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
Amphibians
| Canadian Toad |
Anaxyrus hemiophrys hemiophrys
|
S3 |
G4T4 |
| Columbia Spotted Frog |
Rana luteiventris
|
S3 |
G4 |
| Great Plains Toad |
Anaxyrus cognatus
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Long-toed Salamander |
Ambystoma macrodactylum
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Northern Leopard Frog |
Lithobates pipiens
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Plains Spadefoot |
Spea bombifrons
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Western Toad |
Anaxyrus boreas
|
S3 |
G4 |
Fish
| Arctic Lamprey |
Lampetra japonica
|
S1 |
G4 |
| Brassy Minnow |
Hybognathus hankinsoni
|
SU |
G5 |
| Deepwater Sculpin |
Myoxocephalus thompsoni
|
SU |
G5 |
| Lake Sturgeon |
Acipenser fulvescens
|
SU |
G3G4 |
| Logperch |
Percina caprodes
|
SU |
G5 |
| Northern Squawfish |
Ptychocheilus oregonensis
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Prickly Sculpin |
Cottus asper
|
SNR |
G5 |
| Pygmy Whitefish |
Prosopium coulteri
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Rainbow trout |
Oncorhynchus mykiss
|
S1 |
G5 |
| River Shiner |
Notropis blennius
|
SU |
G5 |
| Round Whitefish |
Prosopium cylindraceum
|
SU |
G5 |
| Shortjaw Cisco |
Coregonus zenithicus
|
S1 |
G3 |
| Silver Redhorse |
Moxostoma anisurum
|
SU |
G5 |
| Spoonhead Sculpin |
Cottus ricei
|
S3 |
G5 |
| St. Mary Shorthead Sculpin |
Cottus bairdii punctulatus
|
S1 |
G5TNR |
| Stonecat |
Noturus flavus
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Western Silvery Minnow |
Hybognathus argyritis
|
S1 |
G4 |
| Westslope Cutthroat Trout |
Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi
|
S2 |
G4T3 |
Invertebrata > Molluscs
Gastropods
| A Terrestrial Snail |
Vertigo cristata
|
SU |
G5 |
| Armed Snaggletooth |
Gastrocopta armifera
|
SU |
G5 |
| Banff Springs Snail |
Physella johnsoni
|
S1 |
G1 |
| Bellmouth Rams-horn |
Planorbella campanulata
|
SNR |
G5 |
| Black Gloss |
Zonitoides nitidus
|
SU |
G5 |
| Black Striate |
Striatura ferrea
|
SU |
G5 |
| Blunt Albino Physa |
Physa gyrina athearni
|
S2 |
|
| Boreal Top |
Zoogenetes harpa
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Button Sprite |
Menetus opercularis
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Callused Vertigo |
Vertigo arthuri
|
SU |
G3Q |
| Comb Snaggletooth |
Gastrocopta pentodon
|
SU |
G5 |
| Creeping Ancylid |
Ferrissia rivularis
|
SU |
G5 |
| Crestless Column |
Pupilla hebes
|
SNR |
G5 |
| Cylindrical Vertigo |
Vertigo binneyana
|
SNR |
G1 |
| Delta Hydrobe |
Probythinella emarginata
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Fragile Ancylid |
Ferrissia fragilis
|
SU |
G5 |
| Ice Thorn |
Carychium exile
|
SU |
G5 |
| Iroquois Vallonia |
Vallonia excentrica
|
SNR |
G5 |
| Lovely Vallonia |
Vallonia pulchella
|
SU |
G5 |
| Marsh Hive |
Euconulus praticola
|
SNR |
G5 |
| Meadow Rams-horn |
Planorbula campestris
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Minute Gem |
Hawaiia minuscula
|
SNR |
G5 |
| Mountain Marshsnail |
Stagnicola montanensis
|
SU |
G3 |
| Mud Amnicola |
Amnicola limosus
|
SU |
G5 |
| Mystery Vertigo |
Vertigo paradoxa
|
SU |
G3G4Q |
| Obese Thorn |
Carychium exiguum
|
SU |
G5 |
| Oblong Ancylid |
Ferrissia parallelus
|
SU |
G5 |
| Pale Jumping-slug |
Hemphillia camelus
|
SU |
G4 |
| Rocky Mountain Column |
Pupilla blandi
|
SU |
G4 |
| Rocky Mountainsnail |
Oreohelix strigosa
|
SU |
G5Q |
| Silky Vallonia |
Vallonia cyclophorella
|
SU |
G5 |
| Spruce Snail |
Microphysula ingersolli
|
SNR |
G4G5 |
| Striate Disc |
Discus shimekii
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Subalpine Mountainsnail |
Oreohelix subrudis
|
SU |
G5 |
| Subarctic Lake Stagnicola |
Stagnicola catascopium preblei
|
SU |
G5T3 |
| Tapered Vertigo |
Vertigo elatior
|
SU |
G5 |
| Thicklip Rams-horn |
Planorbula armigera
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Thin-lip Vallonia |
Vallonia perspectiva
|
SNR |
G4G5 |
| Two-ridge Rams-horn |
Helisoma anceps
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Umbilicate Sprite |
Promenetus umbilicatellus
|
S3 |
G4 |
| White Snaggletooth |
Gastrocopta tappaniana
|
SU |
G5 |
| Widelip Pondsnail |
Stagnicola traski
|
S3 |
G3 |
| Widespread Column |
Pupilla muscorum
|
SU |
G5 |
Bivalves
| Arctic-Alpine Fingernail Clam |
Sphaerium nitidum
|
SU |
G5 |
| Brook Lasmigona |
Lasmigona compressa
|
S1S2 |
G5 |
| Giant Northern Pea Clam |
Pisidium idahoense
|
SU |
G5 |
| Perforated Pea Clam |
Pisidium punctatum
|
SU |
G5 |
| Rhomboid Fingernail Clam |
Sphaerium rhomboideum
|
SU |
G5 |
| Walker's Pea Clam |
Pisidium walkeri
|
SR |
G5 |
| Western Floater |
Anodonta kennerlyi
|
SU |
G4 |
Invertebrata > Arthropoda > Insects
Lepidoptera
| Acadian Hairstreak |
Satyrium acadicum
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Acastus Checkerspot |
Chlosyne acastus
|
S2 |
G4G5 |
| Alberta Arctic** |
Oeneis alberta**
|
S3S4 |
G4 |
| Arrowhead Blue |
Glaucopsyche piasus
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Astarte Fritillary |
Boloria astarte
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Blue Copper |
Lycaena heteronea heteronea
|
S2 |
G5T4T5 |
| Bronze Copper |
Lycaena hyllus
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Cary's Arctic |
Oeneis chryxus caryi
|
S1S2 |
G5T4 |
| Checkered White |
Pontia protodice
|
SNA |
G4 |
| Clodius Parnassian |
Parnassius clodius
|
SH |
G5 |
| Coral Hairstreak** |
Satyrium titus**
|
S3S4 |
G5 |
| Cranberry Blue |
Vacciniina optilete
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Dark-banded Flower Gem |
Melaporphyria immortua
|
SH |
GH |
| Delaware Skipper |
Anatrytone logan
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Dingy Arctic Fritillary |
Boloria improba
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Dod's Old World Swallowtail |
Papilio machaon dodi
|
S2S3 |
G5T4T5 |
| Dun Skipper |
Euphyes vestris
|
SU |
G5 |
| Edith's Copper |
Lycaena editha
|
SH |
G5 |
| Egleis Fritillary |
Speyeria egleis
|
S1 |
G5 |
| European Skipper |
Thymelicus lineola
|
SNA |
G5 |
| Eyed Brown |
Satyrodes eurydice
|
SH |
G4 |
| Five-spotted Bogus Yucca Moth |
Prodoxus quinquepunctellus
|
S1 |
G4G5 |
| Fletcher's Hairstreak** |
Satyrium liparops fletcheri**
|
S3S4 |
G5T4Q |
| Freija's Grizzled Skipper |
Pyrgus centaureae freija
|
S2S3 |
G5T4T5 |
| Gillette's Checkerspot |
Euphydryas gillettii
|
S2 |
G2G3 |
| Gold-edged Gem |
Schinia avemensis
|
S1 |
G1G3 |
| Gorgone Checkerspot |
Chlosyne gorgone
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Henry's Copper |
Lycaena cupreus henryae
|
S2S3 |
G5T5 |
| Hobomok Skipper |
Poanes hobomok
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Hudsonian Old World Swallowtail |
Papilio machaon hudsonianus
|
S2S3 |
G5T4 |
| Hutchin's Checkerspot |
Euphydryas editha hutchinsi
|
S1 |
G5TNR |
| Icarioides Blue |
Icaricia icarioides
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Least Skipper |
Ancyloxypha numitor
|
SNA |
G5 |
| Little Copper |
Lycaena phlaeas
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Lorquin's Admiral |
Limenitis lorquini
|
S1S2 |
G5 |
| Magdalena Alpine |
Erebia magdalena
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Moss's Elfin |
Callophrys mossii
|
S1 |
G4 |
| Napa Skipper |
Ochlodes sylvanoides napa
|
S2 |
G5TNR |
| Napaea Fritillary |
Boloria napaea
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Nevada Buck Moth |
Hemileuca nevadensis
|
SU |
G5 |
| Non-pollinating Yucca Moth |
Tegeticula corruptrix
|
S1 |
G4G5 |
| Northern Checkerspot** |
Chlosyne palla**
|
S3S4 |
G5 |
| Northern Pearly-eye |
Enodia anthedon
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Ochre Ringlet |
Coenonympha tullia ochracea
|
S1 |
G5T5 |
| Olympia Marble |
Euchloe olympia
|
S2S3 |
G4G5 |
| Oreas Anglewing |
Polygonia oreas
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Oslar's Roadside-skipper |
Amblyscirtes oslari
|
S1 |
G4 |
| Pacific Fritillary |
Boloria epithore
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Palaeno Sulphur |
Colias palaeno
|
S1S2 |
G5 |
| Pale Swallowtail |
Papilio eurymedon
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Pike's Old World Swallowtail |
Papilio machaon pikei
|
S1S2 |
G5T3 |
| Pine White |
Neophasia menapia
|
SH |
G5 |
| Plains Skipper** |
Hesperia assiniboia**
|
S5 |
G5 |
| Purple Azure |
Celastrina ladon nigrescens
|
S1 |
G5T4 |
| Question Mark |
Polygonia interrogationis
|
SU |
G5 |
| Rhesus Skipper |
Polites rhesus
|
SU |
G4 |
| Ridings' Satyr |
Neominois ridingsii
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Rocky Mountain Dotted Blue |
Euphilotes ancilla
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Ruddy Copper |
Lycaena rubidus
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Semiluna Hairstreak |
Satyrium semiluna
|
S1 |
G4TNR |
| Shasta Blue |
Icaricia shasta
|
S3 |
G5 |
| Sheridan's Green Hairstreak |
Callophrys sheridanii
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Silver-spotted Skipper |
Epargyreus clarus
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Small Checkered-skipper |
Pyrgus scriptura
|
SH |
G5 |
| Strecker's Giant-skipper |
Megathymus streckeri
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Summer Azure |
Celastrina neglecta
|
SU |
G5 |
| Sylvan Hairstreak |
Satyrium sylvinum
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Thicket Hairstreak |
Callophrys spinetorum
|
S1S2 |
G5 |
| Two-tailed Swallowtail |
Papilio multicaudatus
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Verna Flower Moth |
Schinia verna
|
SU |
GU |
| Weidemeyer's Admiral |
Limenitis weidemeyerii
|
S1 |
G5 |
| White-veined Arctic |
Oeneis bore
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Woodland Skipper |
Ochlodes sylvanoides sylvanoides
|
S2 |
G5T5 |
| Yucca Moth |
Tegeticula yuccasella
|
S1 |
G4G5 |
Tiger Beetle
| Beautiful Tiger Beetle |
Cicindela formosa
|
S1S2 |
G5 |
| Ghost Tiger Beetle |
Cicindela lepida
|
S1 |
G4 |
| Grass-runner Tiger Beetle |
Cicindela terricola**
|
S4S5 |
G5 |
| Salt Creek Tiger Beetle |
Cicindela nevadica
|
S2 |
G5 |
Odonates
| Alkali Bluet |
Enallagma clausum
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Azure Darner |
Aeshna septentrionalis
|
S1S2 |
G5 |
| Black-tipped Darner |
Aeshna tuberculifera
|
S2S3 |
G4 |
| Blue-eyed Darner |
Aeshna multicolor
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Brimstone Clubtail |
Stylurus intricatus
|
S1S2 |
G4 |
| Common Green Darner |
Anax junius
|
S2 |
G5 |
| Crimson-ringed Whiteface |
Leucorrhinia glacialis
|
S1S3 |
G5 |
| Dot-tailed Whiteface |
Leucorrhinia intacta
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Forcipate Emerald |
Somatochlora forcipata
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Kennedy's Emerald |
Somatochlora kennedyi
|
S1S2 |
G5 |
| Lake Emerald |
Somatochlora cingulata
|
S2S4 |
G5 |
| Lance-tipped Darner |
Aeshna constricta
|
S1S2 |
G5 |
| Pacific Forktail |
Ischnura cervula
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Plains Forktail |
Ischnura damula
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Pronghorn Clubtail |
Gomphus graslinellus
|
S1 |
G5 |
| River Bluet |
Enallagma anna
|
S1 |
G5 |
| River Jewelwing |
Calopteryx aequabilis
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Striped Meadowhawk |
Sympetrum pallipes
|
S2S4 |
G5 |
| Tule Bluet |
Enallagma carunculatum
|
S1S2 |
G5 |
| Twelve-spotted Skimmer |
Libellula pulchella
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Variegated Meadowhawk |
Sympetrum corruptum
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Vivid Dancer |
Argia vivida
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Western Forktail |
Ischnura perparva
|
S1 |
G5 |
| Western Red Damsel |
Amphiagrion abbreviatum
|
S2S3 |
G5 |
| Whitehouse's Emerald |
Somatochlora whitehousei
|
S2S4 |
G5 |
