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Lee County, IL Biodiversity (WIP)

Celebrating the surprising biodiversity of a county sometimes relegated to being thought of as just cornfields! Will be adding to this incrementally with confirmed observations of all forms of life in Lee County, using sources such as INHS, several guides, natural area catalogs, and of course ...more ↓

Eastern Gray Squirrel 1
Sciurus carolinensis
Fox Squirrel 2
Sciurus niger
Southern Flying Squirrel 3
Glaucomys volans
Franklin's Ground Squirrel 4
Poliocitellus franklinii
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel 5
Ictidomys tridecemlineatus
Woodchuck 6
Marmota monax
Eastern Chipmunk 7
Tamias striatus
American Beaver 8
Castor canadensis
Brown Rat 9
Rattus norvegicus
House Mouse 10
Mus musculus
Prairie Vole 11
Microtus ochrogaster
Meadow Vole 12
Microtus pennsylvanicus
Woodland Vole 13
Microtus pinetorum
Muskrat 14
Ondatra zibethicus
Southern Bog Lemming 15
Synaptomys cooperi
White-footed Mouse 16
Peromyscus leucopus
Deer Mouse 17
Peromyscus maniculatus
Western Harvest Mouse 18
Reithrodontomys megalotis
Meadow Jumping Mouse 19
Zapus hudsonius

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