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WNY Camera Trapping Project ID Guide (Canisius College Applied Conservation Team)

This guide has been created to assist students of the Canisius College Applied Conservation Team with identification of animals from trail camera images throughout Western NY. While this is by no means an exhaustive list of the species that may be encountered in our images, it should provide a ...more ↓

American Red Squirrel 1
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
Eastern Chipmunk 2
Tamias striatus
Eastern Gray Squirrel 3
Sciurus carolinensis
Fox Squirrel 4
Sciurus niger
Southern Flying Squirrel 5
Glaucomys volans
Woodchuck 2
Marmota monax
American Beaver 6
Castor canadensis
Brown Rat 7
Rattus norvegicus
Muskrat 8
Ondatra zibethicus
North American Porcupine 9
Erethizon dorsatum
Eastern Cottontail 10
Sylvilagus floridanus
Common Raccoon 11
Procyon lotor
Striped Skunk 12
Mephitis mephitis
American Mink 13
Neogale vison
American Stoat (Short-tailed Weasel) 14
Mustela richardsonii
Fisher 15
Pekania pennanti
Long-tailed Weasel 16
Neogale frenata
North American River Otter 17
Lontra canadensis
Coyote 18
Canis latrans
Gray Fox 19
Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Red Fox 20
Vulpes vulpes
Bobcat 21
Lynx rufus
American Black Bear 22
Ursus americanus
White-tailed Deer 23
Odocoileus virginianus

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