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TABLE 2 WILDLIFE SPECIES OBSERVED AT THE RIOS FARM SERVICES PROJECT SITE birds Great egret Casmerodius olbus Mallard Anas platyrhynchos White-tolled kite Flonus caeruleus Red-tailed hawk Buteo /amaicensis Amerlcan kestrel Falco sporverius Killdeer Choradrius voctferus Long-billed dowitcher Llmnodromus scolopoceus California gull Lorus collfornlcus Mourning dove Zenoldo mocrouro Northern flicker Coloptes ourotus Pacific-slope flycatcher Empidonax dlfflcilis Western scrub Jay Aphelocoma coerulescens American robin Turdus migratarius Northern mockingbird Mlmus polyglottos European storling Sturnus vulgarls White-crowned sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys Red-winged blackbird Ag©laius phoeniceus Western meadowlark Sturnello neglecter Brewer's blackbird Euphagus cyanocepholos House finch Corpodocus mexlconus Mammals California ground squirrel Spermophilus beecheyi Coyote Canis latrans Other than vernal pool invertebrates, the likelihood of occurrence of other listed or candidate wildlife species identified in the USFWS Species list is considorod low to very low. The irrigated pasture which covers the entire site does not contain suitable habitat for any of these other terrestrial or aquatic wildlife species or Is well outside of the range of the species. For example, the project site is well east of the range of the Son Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes mocrotls mutica). There is no rlverine habitat for the fishes on the list, no cmergent wetland habitat for giant garter snake (Thomnophis gigas), no stock ponds or deep vernal pools (deep enough to hold water into the late-Spring) for California red- legged frog (Rano aurora droytonlif)i or California tiger salamander (Ambystoma Pgrinum), no elderberry (Sambucus sp) shrubs for the Valley elderberry longhorn beetle (Desmocerus colifornicus dimorphus), and no riparian habitat for the riparian woodrat (Neofoma fuscipes riparia) or the presumed-extinct riparian brush rabbit (Sylvilogus bachmanl ripanus). While any of the birds on the USFWS list may occasionally fly over or land on the site, the site does not provide nesting or other critical habitat for any of these bird species. Of the plants identified In the USFWS list, it is considered unlikely that the created vernal pool supports either fleshy owl's clover (Costille/o compestri's ssp succulento) or Greene's tuCTOrIa (TuCTorlo greenel). The site Is well east of the range at palmate- Rios Form Services/20-acre parcel 4 2/19/98 L0 "J 6Z9999£6OZ -1"0100-IO I q-32lOOW WJ T2: 20 T O-£ T -J3S