Great Plains Nature Center Site Index

Great Plains Nature
Center Website Index

This is the Index page for the Great Plains Nature Center web site.
Every page in the web site is listed here and may be visited by clicking on its title.

	Current Great Plains Nature Center poster
	Kansas Critters books

Upcoming Programs

Resources & Workshops for Teachers

School Field Trips

Summer Programs

Koch Habitat Hall
GPNC Preview
Bison Diorama
High Plains Diorama
Prairie Stream
Woodlands
Lobby
BUGS!

Coleman Auditorium

Chisholm Creek Park

Map
Boardwalk view

Links
Regional Nature Centers

Flora and Fauna

Interesting Sightings

Species at Risk

Our Purple Martins
July 2000 nest visits June 2000 nest visits May 2000 nest visits Season summary for 2000	Martin news for 2001 Martin news for 2002 Martin news for 2003 Martin news for 2004 Martin news for 2005 Martin news for 2006

Canada Goose
Dickcissel
Great Horned Owl
Upland Sandpiper
Western Meadowlark

Barred Tiger Salamander

Ornate Box Turtle

Beaver
Bison
Fox Squirrel
Pronghorn

Coralberry
Cottonwood
Eastern Red Cedar
Osage Orange
Poison Ivy
Redbud
Sycamore

Cicadas
Field Cricket
Honeybee
Cottonwood Borer

Butterflies
Monarch
Regal Fritillary

Unionid Mussels

Giant Floater
Pistolgrip
Washboard
Western Fanshell
White Heelsplitter

Other
Animals and Plants

Arrowhead
Baldwin's Ironweed
Bush Morning-Glory
Butterfly Milkweed
Carolina Anemone
Evening Primrose
Goldenrod
Plains Wild Indigo
Purple Coneflower
Spiderwort
Sunflower

INTERNET VERSIONS OF THE
GPNC POCKET GUIDES

Kansas Raptor Rehabilitation
Raptor's and the Law
Falconry in Kansas

A Pocket Guide to Kansas Raptors

PDF version available!

Bald Eagle
Golden Eagle
Osprey
Mississippi Kite
Northern Harrier

Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture

Rare Kansas Raptors

Accipiters

Cooper's Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Goshawk

Buteos

Red-tailed Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk

Falcons

Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
American Kestrel
Merlin
Gyrfalcon

Owls

Great Horned Owl
Eastern Screech Owl
Barred Owl
Snowy Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-Eared Owl
Burrowing Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl

Mammal's Den Recognizing Mammal Tracks A Pocket Guide to Common Kansas Mammals
Marsupials	Virginia Opossum
Insectivores	Least Shrew Eastern Mole
Bats	Eastern Red Bat Big Brown Bat
Armadillos	Nine-banded Armadillo
Hares & Rabbits	Eastern Cottontail Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Rodents	Eastern Chipmunk Deer Mouse Woodchuck American Beaver Hispid Cotton Rat Eastern Woodrat Prairie Vole Common Muskrat Hispid Pocket Mouse Ord's Kangaroo Rat Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Black-tailed Prairie Dog Eastern Gray Squirrel Eastern Fox Squirrel Southern Flying Squirrel Plains Pocket Gopher Western Harvest Mouse North American Porcupine Northern Grasshopper Mouse
Carnivores	Coyote Swift Fox Red Fox Northern Raccoon American Mink American Badger Striped Skunk Bobcat
Ungulates	Elk Mule Deer White-tailed Deer Pronghorn American Bison

Peep's Puddle Tips on Shorebird Identification A Pocket Guide to Great Plains Shorebirds PDF version available!
Plovers
Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover	Piping Plover Killdeer Mountain Plover
Stilts & Avocets
Black-necked Stilt	American Avocet
Sandpipers
Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper	Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird’s Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe American Woodcock Wilson’s Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope

Basic information about snakebites

A Pocket Guide to Kansas Snakes

PDF version available!

Family Leptotyphlopidae
New Mexico Blind Snake

Family Colubridae
Eastern Glossy Snake
Eastern Racer
Prairie Kingsnake
Speckled Kingsnake
Milk Snake
Coachwhip
Rough Green Snake
Smooth Green Snake
Great Plains Rat Snake
Western Rat Snake
Gopher Snake
Longnose Snake
Ground Snake
Flathead Snake
Plains Blackhead Snake

Family Dipsadidae
Western Worm Snake
Ringneck Snake
Western Hognose Snake
Eastern Hognose Snake
Night Snake

Family Natricidae
Plainbelly Water Snake
Diamondback Water Snake
Northern Water Snake
Graham’s Crayfish Snake
Brown Snake
Redbelly Snake
Checkered Garter Snake
Western Ribbon Snake
Plains Garter Snake
Common Garter Snake
Lined Snake
Rough Earth Snake
Smooth Earth Snake

Family Crotalidae
Copperhead
Cottonmouth
Timber Rattlesnake
Prairie Rattlesnake
Massasauga

Kansas Wildlife Refuge A Pocket Guide to Kansas Threatened and Endangered Species
Plants	Running Buffalo Clover Mead's Milkweed Western Prairie Fringed Orchid
Invertebrates	American Burying Beetle Scott Optioservus Riffle Beetle Flat Floater Elktoe Rock Pocketbook Flutedshell Rabbitsfoot Ouachita Kidneyshell Western Fanshell Mucket Ellipse Butterfly Neosho Mucket Delta Hydrobe Snail Slender Walker Snail Sharp Hornsnail
Fish	Chestnut Lamprey Pallid Sturgeon Arkansas River Speckled Chub Western Silvery Minnow Sturgeon Chub Sicklefin Chub Silver Chub Redspot Chub Hornyhead Chub Arkansas River Shiner Silverband Shiner Topeka Shiner Flathead Chub Neosho Madtom Arkansas Darter Blackside Darter
Amphibians	Eastern Newt Longtail Salamander Cave Salamander Many-ribbed Salamander Grotto Salamander Green Toad Spring Peeper Strecker's Chorus Frog Green Frog Eastern Narrowmouth Toad
Reptiles	Common Map Turtle Broadhead Skink Texas Blind Snake Longnose Snake Redbelly Snake Checkered Garter Snake Smooth Earth Snake
Birds	Whooping Crane Snowy Plover Piping Plover Eskimo Curlew Least Tern Black-capped Vireo
Mammals	Gray Myotis Black-footed Ferret Eastern Spotted Skunk

Buttons & Pearls
Anatomy of Unionid Mussels
Reproduction of Unionid Mussels

A Pocket Guide to Kansas Freshwater Mussels

Subfamily Anodontinae

	Elktoe
	Flat Floater
	Cylindrical Papershell
	Rock Pocketbook
	White Heelsplitter
	Flutedshell
	Floater
	Creeper
	Paper Pondshell

Subfamily Ambleminae

	Threeridge
	Purple Wartyback
	Spike
	Wabash Pigtoe
	Washboard
	Round Pigtoe
	Rabbitsfoot
	Monkeyface
	Wartyback
	Pimpleback
	Mapleleaf
	Pistolgrip
	Pondhorn

Subfamily Lampsilinae

	Mucket
	Western Fanshell
	Butterfly
	Plain Pocketbook
	Neosho Mucket
	Fatmucket
	Yellow Sandshell
	Fragile Papershell
	Pondmussel
	Threehorn Wartyback
	Pink Heelsplitter
	Pink Papershell
	Bleufer
	Ouachita Kidneyshell
	Lilliput
	Fawnsfoot
	Deertoe
	Ellipse

Extirpated Species

	Spectaclecase
	Slippershell
	Snuffbox
	Creek Heelsplitter
	Black Sandshell
	Hickorynut
	Winged Mapleleaf
	Pyramid Pigtoe

Exotic Invasive Mussels

	Asiatic Clam
	Zebra Mussel

The Shoreline A Pocket Guide to Great Plains Waterbirds PDF version available!
Loons
Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon
Grebes
Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark’s Grebe
Pelicans, Cormorants & Allies
American White Pelican Neotropic Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant
Bitterns, Herons, Ibises & Allies
American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Glossy Ibis White-faced Ibis
Rails, Coots and Cranes
Yellow Rail Black Rail King Rail Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot Sandhill Crane Whooping Crane
Gulls, Terns and Jaegers
Bonaparte’s Gull Franklin’s Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Least Tern Caspian Tern Black Tern Common Tern Forster’s Tern
Rare Great Plains Waterbirds
Yellow-billed Loon Brown Pelican Anhinga Reddish Egret White Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Wood Stork Purple Gallinule Black-legged Kittiwake	Sabine’s Gull Laughing Gull Thayer’s Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger

References & Glossary

A Pocket Guide to Kansas
Flint Hills Wildflowers & Grasses

PDF version available!

Blue/Purple

Leadplant
Ground-plum Milk-vetch
Blue Wild-indigo
Wavy-leaf Thistle
Purple Prairie-clover
Dotted Gayfeather
Wild Bergamot Bee-balm
Bread-root Scurf-pea
Wild Alfalfa
Fringe-leaf Ruellia
Blue Sage
Ohio Spiderwort
Western Ironweed

Pink/Red

Illinois Tick-clover
Purple-coneflower
Rose Verbena
Slender Bush-clover
Cardinal Flower
Cat-claw Sensitive-briar
Pink Smartweed

Yellow/Orange

Annual Broomweed
Butterfly Milkweed
Maximilian’s Sunflower
Long-beard Hawkweed
Grooved Flax
Carrot-leaf Wild Celery
Missouri Evening-primrose
Plains Ragwort
Nuttall’s Prairie-parsley
Compass Plant
Missouri Goldenrod

White/Cream

Tuberous Indian-plantain
Heath Aster
Pale Poppy-mallow
New Jersey Tea
Plains Larkspur
Illinois Bundleflower
Wedge-leaf Draba
Flowering Spurge
Snow-on-the-mountain
Long-flower Butterfly-weed
American Licorice
Round-head Bush-clover
Showy Evening-primrose
Cobaea Beardtongue
Prairie Blue-eyed-grass
Narrow-leaf Bluet
Flax-leaf Stenosiphon
Nuttall’s Death-camas

Green/Inconspicuous

Western Ragweed
White Sagewort
Green Antelopehorn

Grasses

Big Bluestem
Switch Grass
Little Bluestem
Indian Grass
Prairie Cordgrass
Eastern Gamma Grass

Sericea Lespedeza

	Common Kansas Butterflies Pocket Guide
	Common Kansas Backyard Birds Pocket Guide

Owl's Nest Gift Shop

Brent Langley Artwork

	Participating Agencies U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Kansas Junior Duck Stamp Competition Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism City of Wichita, Department of Parks and Recreation Pawnee Prairie Park Map (viewable) Pawnee Prairie Park Map (printable)
	Friends of the Great Plains Nature Center Volunteering at the GPNC Volunteer application form Scholarships, Grants and Position Announcements

Prairies of the World

Kansas Wildlife Exhibit - In Central Riverside Park. It is the original zoo in Wichita.

Click here to go to the top of this page.

updated May 07, 2013