BREC's Fauna Conservation Park Guide

This guide provides a resource for a majority of the animals that you may come across within a BREC Conservation Area. Make sure you use it as a checklist to document what you see at our parks! From turtles and snakes, to beavers and dragonflies use this to learn more about your local ...more ↓

American Beaver 1
Castor canadensis
Pine Vole
Microtus pinetorum
Muskrat 2
Ondatra zibethicus
Nutria 3
Myocastor coypus
Marsh Rice Rat 4
Oryzomys palustris
Golden Mouse
Ochrotomys nuttalli
Hispid Cotton Rat 5
Sigmodon hispidus
Eastern Harvest Mouse
Reithrodontomys humulis
Cotton Mouse 6
Peromyscus gossypinus
White-footed Mouse 7
Peromyscus leucopus
Fulvous Harvest Mouse
Reithrodontomys fulvescens
Southern Flying Squirrel 8
Glaucomys volans
Eastern Gray Squirrel 9
Sciurus carolinensis
Eastern Chipmunk 10
Tamias striatus
Fox Squirrel 11
Sciurus niger
Eastern Cottontail 12
Sylvilagus floridanus
Swamp Rabbit 13
Sylvilagus aquaticus
Human 14
Homo sapiens

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