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Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
Animals
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Many different vegetative types provides habitat for a wide variety of wildlife in the park. Open land wildlife includes rabbits, groundhogs, quail, mourning dove, hawks, owls, field sparrows and several other bird species normally found in cropland, pasture, and meadows. Woodland wildlife includes white-tailed deer, gray squirrels, raccoon, opossum, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, woodpeckers and warblers. Wetland wildlife includes beaver, mink, muskrat, ducks, geese, and other water birds that live along streams, in ponds, marshes, and swamps. There is also a wide variety of reptiles and amphibians.
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Did You Know?
30 acres of Civil War battlefield land is destroyed every day. Civil War Preservation Trust preserves 133.2 acres of the Bristoe Station battlefield.
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Last Updated: July 25, 2006 at 00:31 EST |
