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AUGUSTIN BERNAL MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL PROJECT DRAFT INITIAL STUDY <br /> Table 3.4-2.Special-Status Wildlife Species with Potential to Occur on the Project Site <br /> Scientific Common Status <br /> Name Name (Federal/State) Habitat Potential to Occur <br /> Reptiles <br /> Masticophis Alameda FT/ST Open areas in chaparral Moderate potential to <br /> lateralis whipsnake and scrub habitat;also occur.The project <br /> euryxanthus adjacent grassland,oak site is contiguous <br /> savanna,and woodland. with high-quality <br /> scrub habitat, is <br /> within designated <br /> critical habitat for the <br /> subspecies(71 FR <br /> 58175), and there <br /> are multiple <br /> occurrences along <br /> Pleasanton Ridge <br /> (Swaim, pers.comm. <br /> 2021). No formal <br /> presence-absence <br /> surveys have been <br /> conducted on the site <br /> but City staff are <br /> aware of its potential <br /> presence and have <br /> not observed the <br /> species once in the <br /> last four years, <br /> despite actively <br /> looking for it(M. <br /> Gruber, pers.comm.). <br /> Birds <br /> Accipiter Cooper's None/WL Nests and forages in High potential to <br /> cooperi hawk dense stands of live occur.The project <br /> (nesting) oak, riparian woodlands, site contains high- <br /> or other woodland quality nesting and <br /> habitats, often near foraging habitat for <br /> water. this species. <br /> Elanus white-tailed None/FP Nests in woodland, Moderate potential to <br /> leucurus kite(nesting) riparian, and individual occur.The project <br /> trees near open lands; site is suitable for <br /> forages opportunistically nesting but lacks <br /> in grassland, meadows, open areas for <br /> scrubs,agriculture, foraging.Such <br /> emergent wetland, habitat is present <br /> savanna,and disturbed along the ridgetop to <br /> lands. the west and south, <br /> however. <br /> Baeolophus oak titmouse BCC/None Nests and forages in High potential to <br /> inornatus (nesting) oak woodlands;also occur.Species <br /> open pine forest, pinyon observed during April <br /> 12956 <br /> DUDEK 33 April 2022 <br />