Native Animals of Fishing Creek Watershed

Mammals

Red and Gray Fox
Shrew, Mole and Vole
Little Brown Bat
Muskrat
Short tailed and long tailed Weasel
Opossum
Porcupine
Eastern Cottontail
River Otter
Woodchuck
Eastern Chipmunk
Raccoons
Coyotes
Skunks
Bobcat
Beavers
Mice and Rats White-tailed Deer
Mink
Black Bear
Mountain Lion

 

 
Reptiles

Turtles (box, wood, snapping, soft-shelled, musk, Eastern mud, painted, stinkpot, spotted, bog)

Snakes (northern copperhead, timber rattlesnake, cottonmouth, rat, black, ribbon, common garter, milk, hognose, northern water, smooth green, ringneck, black racer)

Lizards (five-lined skink, broadhead skink, eastern fence)

 

Birds

Ruffed Grouse
Bobwhite Quail
Wild Turkey
American Woodcock
King Fisher
Red-winged Blackbird
Canada Goose
Dipper Ducks (mallard, teal, black, gadwall, pintail, widgeon)
Wood Duck
Diving Ducks (merganser, ring-necked, scaup, goldeneye, bufflehead, ruddy)
Grebes (horned, pied billed)
Common Loon
American Coot
Snow Goose
Tundra Swan
Gulls and Terns
Herons (green, great blue, little blue, black crowned, yellow crowned, american bittern)
Egrets (snowy, great white, cattle)
Rails
Owls (barn, saw-whet, screech, great-horned, short eared, long eared, barred, burrowing)
Eagles (bald, golden)
Hawks (Accipiters, Buteos and Falcons: sharp-shinned, coopers, harrier, goshawk; red-tailed, broad-winged, rough-legged; kestrel, peregrine)
Osprey
Turkey Vulture
Killdeer
Eastern Meadowlark
Swallows (barn, rough winged, bank, tree)
Purple Martin
Flycatcher and Kingbird
Common Nighthawk
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
American Robin
Mourning Dove
Blue Jay
Cardinal
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
American Crow
Common Grackle
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Sparrows
Eastern Bluebird
Mockingbird
Finches (goldfinch, house, purple, redpoll, crossbill)
Grosbeaks (rose-breasted, evening, pine)
Rufous-Sided Towhee
Wrens (carolina, house, winter)
Kinglets (ruby and golden crowned)
Nuthatches (white and red breasted)
Brown Creeper
Woodpeckers (downy, hairy, red-bellied, flicker, sapsucker, pileated)
Red eyed Vireo
Cedar Waxwing
Dark-eyed Junco
Thrushes (hermit, wood, veery)
Wood Warblers

 

Fish

Sculpin
Yellow Perch
White Sucker
American eel
White Catfish
Channel Catfish
Shiner
Darter
Common Carp
Chain Pickerel
Brook Trout
Rainbow Trout
Brown Trout
Brown Bullhead
Black Bullhead
Yellow bullhead
Walleye
Largemouth Bass
Smallmouth Bass
Pumpkinseed
Bluegill
Longear Sunfish
White Crappie
Black Crappie

 

 

 

Amphibians

Salamanders (red-spotted newt, marbled, tiger, jefferson, mud, northern red, red-back, dusky, northern two-lined, slimy, spotted, long-tailed, mudpuppy, hellbender)

Frogs (bullfrog, green, leopard, spring peeper, wood, gray treefrog, pickerel)

Toads (American, Fowlers, woodhouse)

 

 

 

North American Amphibian Monitoring Program

 

Insects

Butterflies/Moths
Mayflies
Dragonflies
Crickets/Grasshoppers
Stoneflies
Earwigs
Backswimmers/Striders
Cicadas
Aphids
Dobsonfly
Beetles
Weevils
Caddisflies
Flies/Mosquitos/Gnats
Fleas
Sawflies
Bees/Wasps

 

 

 

by Olivia