Summer Birds Observed at Cumberland Mountain Farm
25-30 June 2005
by Charles R. Smith and Claudia K. Melin

Listed here are 73 species out of 79 previously reported from the Tennessee breeding bird atlas block in which Cumberland Mountain Farm is located. A total of 105 Summer bird species were reported from Cumberland County in the Atlas of Breeding Birds of Tennessee. English and scientific names are from the Check-list of North American Birds, 7th ed. (American Ornithologists' Union, 1998) and subsequent supplements, as published in The Auk through 2004. The sequence of names is alphabetical.

Amphibians and Reptiles Observed at Cumberland Mountain Farm
25-30 June 2005
by Charles R. Smith and Claudia K. Melin

English and scientific names follow Moriarty, J.J. (Ed.). 2000. Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, 5th ed. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Herpetological Circular No. 29, 82 pp. Species are listed in alphabetical order.

Odonates and Butterflies Observed at Cumberland Mountain Farm
25-30 June 2005
by Charles R. Smith and Claudia K. Melin

English and scientific names for dragonflies and damselflies (odonates) follow Dunkle, S. W. 2000. Dragonflies through Binoculars: A Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 266 pp. and Lam, E. 2004. Damselflies of the Northeast. Biodiversity Books, Forest Hills, NY. 96 pp. English and scientific names for butterflies follow Cassie, B., J. Glassberg, A. Swengel, and G. Tudor. 2001. Checklist and English Names of North American Butterflies, 2nd ed. North American Butterfly Association, Morristown, NJ. 59 pp. Names are listed in alphabetical order.

Plants Observed at Cumberland Mountain Farm
25-30 June 2005
by Charles R. Smith and Claudia K. Melin

Because there is no single standard reference for both English and scientific names of plants, a variety of field guides have been followed. For names of ferns, the following field guide is used: Wherry, E. T. 1961. The Fern Guide: Northeastern and Midland United States and Adjacent Canada. Doubleday and Company, Garden City, NY. 318 pp. For names of trees and shrubs, see the following field guide: Petrides, G. A. 1972. A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and North-central United States and Southeastern and South-central Canada. 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 428 pp. And for wildflowers, the following field guide, specific to Tennessee, is used: Carman, J.B. 2001. Wildflowers of Tennessee. Highland Rim Press, Tullahoma, TN. 427 pp. For a complete listing of the plants of Tennessee, see the following web site, maintained by the University of Tennessee Herbarium: http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/index.html. The University of Tennessee Herbarium documents 1014 native plant species from Cumberland County. Species identified as “introduced” are not native to North America.