Erie County
Ecoregions: Southern Great Lakes forests (62%) and Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests (38%)
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests. Shares of the land area. Ecoregions: RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al. 2017) (opens in a new tab), CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
Watersheds: Huron-Vermilion, Lake Erie and Sandusky
Land cover: farmland 54%, developed 25%, forest 16%
Water covers 60% of the county.
Elevation: 460 to 890 ft, mostly around 660 ft (139–272 m)
Land cover as shares of the land area. Land cover: USGS Annual NLCD, 2025 (opens in a new tab). Elevation: USGS 3D Elevation Program (opens in a new tab)
Warmth so far: Not available yet.
- species with a result
- 166
- records, 2016 to 2025
- 14,434
Erie County at a glance
Darker weeks have more of a group's species recorded. Shows when people recorded them, not how common they are.
The grey bars show how many records of all species were made here each week, so you can see when recording itself was high or low.
Every species recorded here
341 species
Amphibians 2
Bees, wasps and ants 4
Beetles 4
Birds 47
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