Patience Island - Narragansett Bay, RI

Fauna (Animal Life)

White-tailed deer inhabit the island, part of the shared population with Prudence Island. The upland areas, with their early successional vegetation, also support red fox, eastern cottontail rabbit and ring-necked pheasant. Core areas along the shore are used extensively as feeding areas by migrant and wintering waterfowl species. Common loons and horned grebes occur frequently, as do greater scaup, great cormorants, canvas-backed ducks, black duck and scoters. Quahogs are abundant in the sandy sediment.


Endangered Species

The salt marsh contains the seablite, a plant species common in other areas of the country, but rare in Rhode Island. There are only four other recorded sites for this species in the state. As a result, the plant is classified as "of special concern" by the Rhode island Natural Heritage Program.

Patience Island

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