Wetland Dependent Wildlife Species


Wood Stork
Muskrat
Warmouth
Woodhouse Toad

Mammals: Eastern pipistrel, red bat, evening bat, raccoon, swamp rabbit, beaver, muskrat.

Birds: Anhinga, great blue heron, green heron, great egret, little blue heron, snowy egret, yellow-crowned night heron, black-crowned night heron, white ibis, wood stork, red-winged blackbird, king rail, sora, purple gallinule, common gallinule (moorhen), great horned owl, barred owl, belted kingfisher, fish crow, wood duck, mallard.

Reptiles: Common snapping turtle, common musk turtle, Mississippi mud turtle, Missouri River cooter, red-eared turtle, midland smooth softshell turtle, spiny softshell turtle, five-lined skink, broadhead skink, rough green snake, yellowbelly water snake, midland water snake, diamondback water snake, broadbanded water snake, eastern hognose snake, great plains rat snake, speckled kingsnake, Graham’s crayfish snake, brown snake, western ribbon snake, common garter snake, copperhead, western cottonmouth, western pygmy rattlesnake, timber rattlesnake.

Amphibians: Central newt, Red River mudpuppy, marbled salamander, spotted salamander, smallmouth salamander, slimy salamander, dwarf American toad, Woodhouse’s toad, Cope’s gray treefrog, gray treefrog, Blanchard’s cricket frog, western chorus frog, bronze frog, green frog, southern leopard frog, slimy salamander complex, green treefrog, bird-voiced treefrog, four-toed salamander, many ribbed salamander, bullfrog.

Fish: Mosquitofish, largemouth bass, green sunfish, orange-spotted sunfish, warmouth, black crappie, white crappie, blue gill, redear sunfish, blackstripe topminnow, yellow bullhead and black bullhead catfish, channel catfish, spotted bass, bluehead shiner, ribbon shiner, taillight shiner, iron color shiner, pygmy sunfish, pirate perch.