Wetland Dependent Wildlife Species


Little Blue Herron
Copperhead snake
Spotted Sunfish

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

Birds: Eared grebe, horned grebe, pied-billed grebe, American white pelican, double-crested cormorant, great blue heron, American bittern, green heron, great egret, little blue heron, snowy egret, yellow-crowned night heron, black-crowned night heron, white-faced ibis, green-winged teal, American wigeon, northern shoveler, ruddy duck, cinnamon teal, pintail, blue-winged teal, white-fronted goose, gadwall, red-winged blackbird, snow goose, Canada goose, wood duck, mallard, ring-necked duck, lesser scaup, greater scaup, hooded merganser, redhead canvasback, common goldeneye, bufflehead, common merganser, osprey, bald eagle, marsh hawk/northern harrier, red-shouldered hawk, rough-legged hawk, Virginia rail, king rail, sora, purple gallinule, common gallinule (moorhen), American coot, sandhill crane, whooping crane, black-bellied plover, semipalmated plover, American avocet, solitary sandpiper, lesser yellowlegs, greater yellowlegs, willet, long-billed curlew, marbled godwit, Hudsonian godwit, Franklin’s gull, black tern, great horned owl, barred owl, short-eared owl, belted kingfisher, red-bellied woodpecker, alder flycatcher, willow flycatcher, white-eyed vireo, Bell’s vireo, fish crow, tree swallow, veery.

Reptiles: Common snapping turtle, common musk turtle, yellow mud 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, midland water snake, northern water snake, diamondback water snake, broadbanded water snake, western hogsnake, 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: Barred tiger salamander, smallmouth salamander, dwarf American toad, Woodhouse’s toad, Cope’s gray treefrog, gray treefrog, Blanchard’s cricket frog, western chorus frog, bronze frog, green frog, plains leopard frog, southern leopard frog, bullfrog.

Fish: Mosquitofish, largemouth bass, green sunfish, orange-spotted sunfish, warmouth, black crappie, white crappie, blue gill, redear sunfish, blackstripe topminnow, red shiner, golden shiner, bullhead minnow, common carp, smallmouth buffalo, freshwater drum, river carp sucker, longnose gar, shortnose gar, spotted gar, blackstripe topminnow, brook silverside, slough darter.