What animals are native to your area?

**Ranger** · 26th November 2008, 08:28

Not your country, just the area in which you live. (Just out of curiousity)

I'll start:

Rainbow Lorikeet (messy little fella's they are):

Noisy miner:

Brushtail possum:

Eastern Rosella:

and of course, the Australian Pelican:

Post away!

**Mark** · 26th November 2008, 08:53

Red Squirrel. Quite endangered these days.

It's arguable what species are actually 'native' to the UK. It depends how far back you look. Around 10,000 years ago the majority of the UK was covered in an ice-sheet, where very few animals lived, and certainly none that are here now. All our wildlife population, and humans! have therefore colonised the British Isles since that time so can all be traced back to somewhere else.

**Les** · 26th November 2008, 12:24

had a beautiful deer cross the road in front of me this morning.

**turves** · 26th November 2008, 12:26

Chavs

**schmenke** · 26th November 2008, 16:59

Sister in-law

**Easy Drifter** · 26th November 2008, 17:34

Skunks, porcupines, 3 types of squirrels, groundhogs, deer, moose, black bear, coyote, timber wolf, Massassaga Rattler and several harmless snake species, bobcat, cougar, (MNR says no but too many sitings plus DNR on scat says yes) many species of owls, bald eagle, turkey vulture and numerous other bird species including several hawks, Canada geese, swans including Trumpeter and umpteen duck species. Wild Turkey are a reintroduction but they were native.
MNR also say there are no Timber Wolves this far south. Trouble is I have seen 3 and often hear them. I do know the difference between a coyote and a timber wolf.
If you talk to any of the older MNR officers that have lived up here they disagree with the official line on the Cougars and Wolves. The young ones who are all college grads, usually from the city toe the party line.

**Firstgear** · 26th November 2008, 18:25

My list would be very similar to yours Easy Drifter. Add beaver, racoon, painted & snapping turtle (which I assume you have in your area as well), some type of heron, remove the swan, and replace the rattler with a garter snake. Other than the moose, wolf & cougar, I've seen all of those at the cottage in the last year or two - but I know they're around. A cougar was photographed close to my cottage just last week. I'd include bison, but they're all on the farms.

**Hazell B** · 26th November 2008, 18:32

Frogs, herrons, assorted birds of prey, mice and all three types of sparrows are daily sightings for me, along with signs of deer, stoats, foxes, badgers, etc that visit when I'm not there. And that's on just 2 1/2 acres!

I'm building dry and wet stone walls this year for the stoats. The cat keep eating them (hard nut, that cat) so I figured I'd best make sure they had stronger places he couldn't reach them in. I like stoats

**donKey jote** · 26th November 2008, 18:35

only donkeys in my immediate area

**Easy Drifter** · 26th November 2008, 19:13

First Gear: Yes, I just missed those. We also have the Great Blue Heron and the small Green Heron.
If we get into fish small & largemouth bass, perch. walleye, salmon, trout (lake, rainbow, brown and specs), Catfish, pike, gar pike, sturgeon, whitefish, and Muskie, sometimes referred to sarcastically as freshwater sharks. They have been known to attack humans and grow in excess of 50 lbs. Many other small species of minnows darters etc.
There are a couple of small herds of wood bison about 50/60 miles away.