| Listed Species in Bibb
County | ||||
| Species | Federal Status | State Status | Habitat | Threats |
| Bird | ||||
| Bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus | T | E | Inland waterways and estuarine areas in Georgia. Active eagle nests were located in Bibb County in 1996-1998 and 2000-2002. | Major factor in initial decline was lowered reproductive success following use of DDT. Current threats include habitat destruction, disturbance at the nest, illegal shooting, electrocution, impact injuries, and lead poisoning. |
| Red-cockaded
woodpecker Picoides borealis | E | E | Nest in mature pine with low understory vegetation (<1.5m); forage in pine and pine hardwood stands > 30 years of age, preferably > 10" dbh | Reduction of older age pine stands and encroachment of hardwood midstory in older age pine stands due to fire suppression |
| Wood
stork Mycteria americana | E | E | Primarily feed in fresh and brackish wetlands and nest in cypress or other wooded swamps. | Decline due primarily to loss of suitable feeding habitat, particularly in south Florida. Other factors include loss of nesting habitat, prolonged drought/flooding, raccoon predation on nests, and human disturbance of rookeries. |
| Reptile | ||||
| Gopher tortoise Gopherus polyphemus | No Federal Status | T | Well drained, sandy soils in forest and grassy areas; associated with pine overstory, open understory with grass and forb groundcover, and sunny areas for nesting | |
| Plant | ||||
| Fringed campion Silene polypetala | E | E | Mature hardwood or hardwood-pine forests on river bluffs, small stream terraces, moist slopes and well-shaded ridge crests; 4 populations observed in Bibb County in 1990's | Residential development, logging, and spread of Japanese honeysuckle |
| Green pitcher-plant
Sarracenia oreophila | E | E | Open seepy meadows, along sandy flushed banks of streams, and in partially shaded red maple-blackgum low woods or poorly drained oak-pine flatwoods; the known population of this species in Bibb County has been extirpated. | Collection for commercial sale; fire suppression; and increased residential, agricultural, and silvicultural development |
| Ocmulgee
skullcap Scutellaria ocmulgee | No Federal Status | T | Forested terraces, hardwood slopes and riverbanks of tributaries to the Ocmulgee, Oconee, and Savannah Rivers | |
| Relict
trillium Trillium reliquum | E | E | Hardwood forests; in the Piedmont, found in either in rich ravines or adjacent alluvial terraces with other spring-flowering herbs | Logging, road construction, agricultural conversion, mining, residential/industrial development, and encroachment by Japanese honeysuckle and kudzu |
| Piedmont barren strawberry Waldsteinia lobata |
No Federal Status | T | Rocky acedic woods along streams with mountain laurel; rarely in drier upland oak-hickory-pine woods | |
| Sweet
pitcher-plant Sarracenia rubra | No Federal Status | E | Acid soils of open bogs, sandhill seeps, Atlantic white-cedar swamps, wet savannahs, low areas in pine flatwoods, and along sloughs and ditches | |