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Wildlife of North Sterling State Park

North Sterling State Park is located on the high plains of northeast Colorado in Logan County, 12 miles north of the town of Sterling and 20 miles south of the Nebraska border. The Pawnee National Grasslands are 20 miles to the west and the Chimney Canyons bluffs are just north of the park. The ...more ↓

Virginia Opossum 1
Didelphis virginiana
Desert Cottontail 2
Sylvilagus audubonii
Eastern Cottontail 3
Sylvilagus floridanus
Black-tailed Jackrabbit 4
Lepus californicus
White-tailed Jackrabbit 5
Lepus townsendii
Fox Squirrel 6
Sciurus niger
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel 7
Ictidomys tridecemlineatus
Spotted ground squirrel 8
Xerospermophilus spilosoma
Black-tailed prairie dog 9
Cynomys ludovicianus
American Beaver 10
Castor canadensis
Plains Pocket Gopher 11
Geomys bursarius
Northern Pocket Gopher 12
Thomomys talpoides
Hispid pocket mouse 13
Chaetodipus hispidus
Plains pocket mouse 14
Perognathus flavescens
Silky Pocket Mouse 13
Perognathus flavus
Ord's Kangaroo Rat 15
Dipodomys ordii
North American Porcupine 16
Erethizon dorsatum
House Mouse 17
Mus musculus
Muskrat 18
Ondatra zibethicus
Prairie vole 19
Microtus ochrogaster
Meadow vole 20
Microtus pennsylvanicus
North American Deermouse 21
Peromyscus maniculatus
Western harvest mouse 22
Reithrodontomys megalotis
Plains harvest mouse 23
Reithrodontomys montanus
Northern grasshopper mouse 24
Onychomys leucogaster
Bushy-tailed Wood Rat 25
Neotoma cinerea
Mule deer 26
Odocoileus hemionus
White-tailed deer 27
Odocoileus virginianus
Elk 28
Cervus canadensis
Pronghorn 29
Antilocapra americana
Big Brown Bat 13
Eptesicus fuscus
Silver-haired bat 30
Lasionycteris noctivagans
Eastern Red Bat 31
Lasiurus borealis
Hoary Bat 32
Lasiurus cinereus
Western Small-footed Myotis 33
Myotis ciliolabrum
Little Brown Bat 34
Myotis lucifugus
Big free-tailed bat 35
Nyctinomops macrotis
Common Raccoon 36
Procyon lotor
North American river otter 37
Lontra canadensis
Long-tailed Weasel 38
Mustela frenata
American mink 39
Neovison vison
American Badger 40
Taxidea taxus
Striped Skunk 41
Mephitis mephitis
Eastern Spotted Skunk 42
Spilogale putorius
Bobcat 43
Lynx rufus
Mountain Lion 44
Puma concolor
Coyote 45
Canis latrans
Swift Fox 5
Vulpes velox
Red Fox 46
Vulpes vulpes
North American Least Shrew 47
Cryptotis parva
Masked Shrew 48
Sorex cinereus
Eastern Mole 49
Scalopus aquaticus

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