Directory
Animals
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Turtles and tortoises — 29 animals
Browse by state or province — 96 have animals recorded
- Alabama map turtleGraptemys pulchraProfile
- Alligator snapping turtleMacrochelys temminckiiProfile
- Barbour's map turtleGraptemys barbouriProfile
- Bog turtleGlyptemys muhlenbergiiProfile
- Chicken turtleDeirochelys reticulariaProfile
- Coastal plain cooterPseudemys floridanaProfile
- Common snapping turtleChelydra serpentinaProfile
- Diamondback terrapinMalaclemys terrapinProfile
- Eastern box turtleTerrapene carolinaProfile
- Eastern mud turtleKinosternon subrubrumProfile
- Eastern musk turtleSternotherus odoratusProfile
- Florida red-bellied cooterPseudemys nelsoniProfile
- Florida softshellApalone feroxProfile
- Gopher tortoiseGopherus polyphemusProfile
- Green sea turtleChelonia mydasProfile
- Kemp's ridley sea turtleLepidochelys kempiiProfile
- Leatherback sea turtleDermochelys coriaceaProfile
- Loggerhead musk turtleSternotherus minorProfile
- Loggerhead sea turtleCaretta carettaProfile
- Northern map turtleGraptemys geographicaProfile
- Painted turtleChrysemys pictaProfile
- Pond sliderTrachemys scriptaProfile
- River cooterPseudemys concinnaProfile
- Spiny softshellApalone spiniferaProfile
- Spotted turtleClemmys guttataProfile
- Striped mud turtleKinosternon bauriiProfile
- Stripe-necked musk turtleSternotherus peltiferProfile
- Suwannee alligator snapping turtleMacrochelys suwanniensisProfile
- Three-toed box turtleTerrapene triunguisProfile
Other kinds
- Mammals (75)Fur, milk, live young. Most of what turns up in a garden or a garage.
- Opossums (1)
- Armadillos (1)
- Bats (16)
- Rabbits and hares (4)
- Squirrels, chipmunks and marmots (6)
- Mice, rats and voles (17)
- Beavers and other large rodents (4)
- Shrews and moles (10)
- Foxes, coyotes and wolves (3)
- Wild cats (1)
- Bears (1)
- Raccoons and relatives (1)
- Weasels, otters and badgers (3)
- Skunks (2)
- Deer and other hoofed mammals (2)
- Seals, whales and manatees (3)
- Birds (325)Feathers. The group with the most species and the most misread behaviour.
- Songbirds (139)
- Crows, jays and ravens (4)
- Doves and pigeons (5)
- Hummingbirds (3)
- Swifts (1)
- Cuckoos (2)
- Nightjars and nighthawks (3)
- Woodpeckers (8)
- Kingfishers (1)
- Hawks, eagles and falcons (14)
- Owls (5)
- Vultures (2)
- Ducks, geese and swans (30)
- Loons and grebes (6)
- Pelicans, cormorants and anhingas (5)
- Herons, egrets, ibises, storks and cranes (18)
- Rails, coots and gallinules (7)
- Shorebirds, gulls and seabirds (68)
- Turkeys, quail and grouse (4)
- Reptiles (92)Scales, and a body temperature that comes from outside.
- Amphibians (93)Moist skin, and usually a life that starts in water.
- Fish (396)Fins, gills and scales, or skin. From mountain creeks to the surf.
- Sunfish, bass and crappies (32)
- Perch, walleye and darters (51)
- Minnows, shiners and carp (79)
- Suckers, redhorses and buffalo (21)
- Catfish and madtoms (18)
- Gars, bowfin and sturgeons (7)
- Pickerels and mudminnows (3)
- Topminnows, killifish and mosquitofish (20)
- Trout (3)
- Herrings, shad, anchovies and silversides (19)
- Eels and lampreys (12)
- Pygmy sunfish, sculpins and other freshwater fish (14)
- Sharks (16)
- Rays, skates and guitarfish (11)
- Drums, croakers and seatrout (15)
- Flounders and soles (9)
- Jacks, mackerel and other open-water fish (20)
- Sea bass, porgies and reef fish (14)
- Mullet and mojarras (4)
- Puffers and burrfish (3)
- Toadfish, searobins and other bottom fish (9)
- Gobies, blennies, pipefish and seahorses (16)