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John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
List of mammals found at John Day Fossil Beds
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- Class Mammalia
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- Order Insectivora
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- Family Sorcidae [Shrews]
-
- Sorex vagrans – Vagrant Shrew
- Habitat: Prefers damp areas, such as marshes, wet meadows,
- ditch bottoms and sides. Rare in upper parts of mountains,
- more of a lowland species.
- Sorex monticolus – Dusky Shrew
- Habitat: Wet places along streams and in marshy, boggy areas
- in mountains, also in rockslides and outcroppings.
- Sorex merriami – Merriam’s Shrew
- Habitat: Sagebrush and grasslands, particularly sage grass and
- undisturbed bunchgrass types.
- Sorex palustris – Northern Water Shrew
- Habitat: In and along mountain and foothill streams and beaver
- ponds.
- Sorex cinereus – Preble’s Shrew
- Habitat: Brush and willow growth around springs, bogs,
- marshes and along streams. Often in open coniferous timber.
- Family Talpidae [Moles]
-
- Scapanus orarius – Coast Mole
- Habitat: Prefers drier, brushier and more timbered areas.
-
Order Chiroptera
- Family Vespertilionidae [Evening Bats]
- Euderma maculatum-Spotted Bat
- Habitat: These bats are found in high land ponderosa pine regions in early summer. They descend to lower-elevation deserts in august. ( From: Mammals of Washington and Oregon, Lone Pine Press )
- Myotis lucifugus – Little Brown Bat
- Habitat: Found in a variety of places, most commonly seen near water and may roost in caves.
- Myotis yamanensis – Yuma Brown Bat
- Habitat: Always near ponds, streams and lakes. By day
- under sidings or shingles, night roosts in caves.
- Myotis evotis – Long-eared Brown Bat
- Habitat: Mostly forested and wooded areas in lowlands
-
- and mountains.
- Myotis volans – Long-legged Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Trees, crevices and buildings, particularly in
- forested and wooded areas.
-
Myotis californicus – California Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Variety of wooded or forested areas, mostly near
- water.
-
Myotis leibii – Small-footed Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Open, arid, and desert type areas. Roosts in rocky
- crevices, caves, mines and old buildings. Forages commonly
- over water.
-
Lasionycteris Noctivagans – Silver-haired Bat
-
- Habitat: Forested areas at all elevations, preferring clearings,
- open waterways and lakes.
-
Pipistrellus hesperus – Western Pipistrelle
-
- Habitat: River canyons in the desert areas.
-
Eptesicus fuscus – Big Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Forested areas near water, farmsteads and urban
- areas in and near towns.
-
Lasiurus cinereus – Hoary Bat
-
- Habitat: Openings in forests, as well as wooded residential
- areas in cities and towns. Often begins flying in late afternoon.
-
Piecotus townsendii – Townsend’s Big-eared Bat
-
- Habitat: Occurs in a variety of places, particularly those with
- caves, abandoned mine shafts, old buildings and crevices in
- cliffs.
-
Antrozous pallidus – Pallid Bat
-
- Habitat: River canyons in semi-arid and desert regions. Roosts
- in caves, old buildings and cliff crevices.
- Order Lagomorpha
-
- Family Ochotonidae [Pikas, Rabbits and Hares]
-
- Ochotona princeps – Common Pika
- Habitat: Talus slopes and rocky outcrops in the mountains and
- certain lava bed areas.
- Family Leporidae
-
- Sylvilagus idahoensis – Pygmy Rabbit
- Habitat: Tall, dense sagebrush or greasewood.
- Sylvilagus nutallii – Nuttall’s Cottontail
- Habitat: Sagebrush, dry gullies, canyons weed and tall grass
- patches, brushy thickets and orchards. Mostly at low
- elevations.
- Lepus americanus – Snowshoe Hare
- Habitat: Forested areas, woodland swamps and brush patches.
- Lepus townsendii - White-tailed Jack Rabbit
- Habitat:Grasslands and higher grassy sagebrush of the foothills
- and lower mountains.
- Lepus californicus – Black-tailed Jack Rabbit
- Habitat: Sagebrush, lower foothill grasslands and adjacent hay
- fields. Populations have become greatly reduced.
- Order Rodentia
-
- Family Scuiridae [Squirrels]
-
- Eutamius minimus – Least Chipmunk
- Habitat: Sagebrush areas and lodgepole pine.
- Eutamius amoenus – Yellow Pine Chipmunk
- Habitat: Open to semi-open coniferous forests, clearings,
- large brushy areas, and rocky places from lowlands to high
- mountains.
- Marmota Flaviventris – Yellow-bellied Marmot
- Habitat: Talus slides, outcroppingss, rimrock, old log piles,
- under old buildings, and in burrows in cut banks.
- Spermophilus townsendii – Townsend’s Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Mixed sagegrass areas expecially where small patches
- of grass occur in the sagebrush. Colonies often located on
- hillsides. Prefers hotter, drier areas.
- Spermophilus beldingi – Belding’s Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Meadows and open juniper slopes, sparse timber, and brush.
- Spermophilus lateralis – Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Open coniferous forest, clearings, and rocky
- outcroppings. Particularly familiar in campgrounds and picnic areas.
- Tamiascurus douglasii – Douglas Squirrel
- Habitat: Primarily coniferous forests.
- Spermophilus washintoni – Washington Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Grasslands either extensive or scattered throughout
- sagebrush, as well as roadside ditches and edges of grain fields.
- Spermophilus columbianus – Columbian Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Grasslands, meadows, and grain fields.
- Tamiascurus hudsonicus – Red Squirrel
- Habitat: Primarily coniferous forests.
- Glaucomys sabrinus – Northern Flying Squirrel
- Habitat: Prefers coniferous forests, frequenting and most
- common in the denser portions where the thick canopy lessens
- the penetration of light.
- Family Geomyidae [Pocket Gophers]
-
- Thomomys talpoides – Northern Pocket Gopher
- Habitat: Open to semi-open areas particularly meadow,
- grasslands and pastures where soft soil is present for
- burrowing.
- Thomomys townsendii – Townsend’s Pocket Gopher
- Habitat: Moist river valleys and irrigated regions. Frequents
- sides of ditches and irrigation canals. Found in very restricted
- areas.
- Family Heteromyidae [Pocket Mice]
-
- Perognathus parvus – Great Basin Pocket Mouse
- Habitat: Sagebrush, bitterbrush, and rabbitbrush areas
- as well as grassy places and nearby grain fields.
- Dipodomys ordii – Ord’s Kangaroo Rat
- Habitat: Open sandy or soft soil areas with sparse cover of
- vegetation, such as sagebrush, forbs or grasses.
- Family Castoridae [Beaver]
-
- Castor canadensis – Beaver
- Habitat: Semi-aquatic, restricting itself closely to streams and
- standing water such as ponds and small lakes.
- Family Criceditae [New World Rats and Mice]
-
- Reithrodontomys megalotus – Western Harvest Mouse
- Habitat: Dense grass in dry, open, semi-desert areas.
- Peromyscus crinitus – Canyon Mouse
- Habitat: Rocky slides and crevices in cliffs in hot, dry
- canyons in open, desert country.
- Peromyscus maniculatus – Deer Mouse
- Habitat: Prefers coniferous forests, can also be found in grain
- fields, weedy fence rows and ditches, sagebrush and slide rock.
- Onychomys leucogaster – Northern Grasshopper Mouse
- Habitat: Mostly restricted to sagebrush.
- Neptoma cinerea – Bushy-tailed Woodrat
- Habitat: Prefers slide rock, cliff and canyon areas, caves, mines
- and old abandoned buildings. Found both in foresed and open
- desert regions.
- Microtus longicaudus – Long-tailed Meadow Mouse
- Habitat: Isolated, moist, grassy areas along streams or ditches,
- sagebrush plains and bunchgrass prairies.
- Peromyscus truci – Pinyon Mouse
- Habitat: Open forest areas, juniper, brush and rocky areas.
- Lagarus curtatus – Sagebrush Vole
- Habitat: Grassy sagebrush and bunchgrass. Could use
- hollowed out cow chips for shelter.
- Phenacomys intermedius – Heather Vole
- Habitat: Found in a wide range of habitats, though prefers
- open, forest vegetation in drier sites near water.
- Arvicola richardsoni – Water Vole
- Habitat: Restricted to stream banks, moist meadows, and lake
- shores in forested mountain areas.
- Microtus montanus – Montane Vole
- Habitat: Moist, weedy, or brushy areas near water at edge of
- grasslands.
- Ondatra zibethicus – Muskrat
- Habitat: Marshes, swamps, streams, rivers, and lakes mostly
- in the lowlands.
- Family Zapodidae [Jumping Mice]
-
- Zapus princeps – Western Jumping Mouse
- Habitat: Wet meadows, bogs, streamside brush, and grassy
- places near water and forested areas.
- Family Muridae [Old World Rats and Mice]
-
- Mus musculus – House Mouse
- Habitat: Widespread distribution wherever man exists.
- Family Erethizontidae [Porcupines]
-
- Erethizon dorsatum – Porcupine
- Habitat: Mostly restricted to coniferous forests, especially
- the more open stands. May occur in deciduous woods and
- occasionally away from timber in sagebrush.
- Order Carnivora
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- Family Canidae [Wolves, Foxes and Coyote]
-
- Canis latrans – Coyote
- Habitat: Most numerous in open prairies or desert type
- environments. Less common but present in denser forest
- areas.
- Canis lupus – Gray Wolf
- Habitat: May occur in all types of natural, terrestrial habitat.
- Numbers are greatly reduced and is extremely rare.
- Vulpes vulpes – Red Fox
- Habitat: Occurs in a variety of habitats, though preferring
- semi-open terrain of foothills and mountains.
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus – Gray Fox
- Habitat: Open timber, brush, rocks and cliffs.
- Family Ursidae [Bears]
-
- Ursus americanus – Black Bear
- Habitat: Prefers forested or wooded habitats, as well as
- swamps. Commonly visit open berry patches in burned or
- subalpine areas when the fruit is ripe.
- Family Procynoidae [Raccoons]
-
- Procyon lotor – Raccoon
- Habitat: Brushy or wooded areas near water at low elevations.
- Family Mustelidae [Weasels, Skunks, Badgers and Otters]
-
- Martes americana – Marten
- Habitat: Occurs very rarely in the coniferous forests, mostly of
- mountains where they frequent the ridges and subalpine woods.
- Martes pennati – Fisher
- Habitat: Occurs scatteringly and through undisturbed forest
- areas at low to intermediate elevations.
- Mustela erminea – Short-tailed Weasel
- Habitat: Occurs in a variety of habitats, though usually stays
- close to stream bottoms, rock slides, fence rows, and brush
- near water.
- Mustela frenata – Long-tailed Weasel
- Habitat: Found in a variety of habitats but prefers drier
- uplands of grass, forest and rock at all elevations.
- Mustela vison – Mink
- Habitat: Occurs mostly near water where the diet of
- muskrats, fish, frogs and other aquatic animals are
- available.
- Taxidea taxus – Badger
- Habitat: Occurs in open to semi-open country, such as sage-
- brush and grassland plains.
- Spilogale putorius – Spotted Skunk
- Habitat: Prefers brush, canyons, farmlands and farm buildings.
- Mephitus mephitus – Striped Skunk
- Habitat: Found commonly all throughout range, prefers
- marshes, farming land, and riparian growth alongs streams
- in dry country.
- Lutra canadensis – River Otter
- Habitat: Prefers lakes shores, rivers, and larger streams. Rare
- in occurance.
- Gulo gulo – Wolverine
- Habitat: Great wanderer, most likely to be seen in coniferous
- timbered areas especially in mountains.
- Family Felidae [Cats]
-
- Felis concolor – Cougar
- Habitat: Prefers mountain forests and semi-wooded canyon
- areas where deer are available. Greatly reduced in numbers.
- Felis lynx – Lynx
- Habitat: Dense coniferous forests. Extremely rare and reduced
- in numbers.
- Felis rufus – Bobcat
- Habitat: Common in broken, rocky areas and logged over
- forest land.
- Order Artiodactyla
-
- Family Cervidae [Deer and Elk]
-
- Cervus elaphus – Elk
- Habitat: Found mostly in mountain or foothill areas, preferring
- the semi-open forests.
- Odocoileus hemionus – Mule Deer
- Habitat: Rocky, brushy areas and open meadows. Occasionally
- found in scattered coniferous groves in open desert country.
- Odocoileus virginianus – White-tailed Deer
- Habitat: Dense forests, deciduous woods and extensive brushy
- places at low to intermediate elevations mostly near water.
- Family Antilocapridae [Pronghorn]
-
- Antilocapra americana – Pronghorn Antelope
- Habitat: Prefers open sage and grassland plains.
- Family Bovidae [Bison, Goats, Muskox and Sheep]
-
- Ovis canadensis – Big Horn Sheep
- Habitat: Restricted to open meadows and grassy slopes near cliffs
- and rocky ridges in the mountains.
- Sorex monticolus – Dusky Shrew
-
- Habitat: Wet places along streams and in marshy, boggy areas
- in mountains, also in rockslides and outcroppings.
- Sorex merriami – Merriam’s Shrew
- Habitat: Sagebrush and grasslands, particularly sage grass and
- undisturbed bunchgrass types.
- Sorex palustris – Northern Water Shrew
- Habitat: In and along mountain and foothill streams and beaver
- ponds.
- Sorex cinereus – Preble’s Shrew
- Habitat: Brush and willow growth around springs, bogs,
- marshes and along streams. Often in open coniferous timber.
- Family Talpidae [Moles]
-
- Scapanus orarius – Coast Mole
- Habitat: Prefers drier, brushier and more timbered areas.
Order Chiroptera
- Family Vespertilionidae [Evening Bats]
- Euderma maculatum-Spotted Bat
- Habitat: These bats are found in high land ponderosa pine regions in early summer. They descend to lower-elevation deserts in august. ( From: Mammals of Washington and Oregon, Lone Pine Press )
- Myotis lucifugus – Little Brown Bat
- Habitat: Found in a variety of places, most commonly seen near water and may roost in caves.
- Myotis yamanensis – Yuma Brown Bat
- Habitat: Always near ponds, streams and lakes. By day
- under sidings or shingles, night roosts in caves.
- Myotis evotis – Long-eared Brown Bat
- Habitat: Mostly forested and wooded areas in lowlands
-
- and mountains.
- Myotis volans – Long-legged Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Trees, crevices and buildings, particularly in
- forested and wooded areas.
-
Myotis californicus – California Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Variety of wooded or forested areas, mostly near
- water.
-
Myotis leibii – Small-footed Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Open, arid, and desert type areas. Roosts in rocky
- crevices, caves, mines and old buildings. Forages commonly
- over water.
-
Lasionycteris Noctivagans – Silver-haired Bat
-
- Habitat: Forested areas at all elevations, preferring clearings,
- open waterways and lakes.
-
Pipistrellus hesperus – Western Pipistrelle
-
- Habitat: River canyons in the desert areas.
-
Eptesicus fuscus – Big Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Forested areas near water, farmsteads and urban
- areas in and near towns.
-
Lasiurus cinereus – Hoary Bat
-
- Habitat: Openings in forests, as well as wooded residential
- areas in cities and towns. Often begins flying in late afternoon.
-
Piecotus townsendii – Townsend’s Big-eared Bat
-
- Habitat: Occurs in a variety of places, particularly those with
- caves, abandoned mine shafts, old buildings and crevices in
- cliffs.
-
Antrozous pallidus – Pallid Bat
-
- Habitat: River canyons in semi-arid and desert regions. Roosts
- in caves, old buildings and cliff crevices.
- Order Lagomorpha
- Family Ochotonidae [Pikas, Rabbits and Hares]
-
- Ochotona princeps – Common Pika
- Habitat: Talus slopes and rocky outcrops in the mountains and
- certain lava bed areas.
- Family Leporidae
-
- Sylvilagus idahoensis – Pygmy Rabbit
- Habitat: Tall, dense sagebrush or greasewood.
- Sylvilagus nutallii – Nuttall’s Cottontail
- Habitat: Sagebrush, dry gullies, canyons weed and tall grass
- patches, brushy thickets and orchards. Mostly at low
- elevations.
- Lepus americanus – Snowshoe Hare
- Habitat: Forested areas, woodland swamps and brush patches.
- Lepus townsendii - White-tailed Jack Rabbit
- Habitat:Grasslands and higher grassy sagebrush of the foothills
- and lower mountains.
- Lepus californicus – Black-tailed Jack Rabbit
- Habitat: Sagebrush, lower foothill grasslands and adjacent hay
- fields. Populations have become greatly reduced.
- Order Rodentia
- Family Scuiridae [Squirrels]
-
- Eutamius minimus – Least Chipmunk
- Habitat: Sagebrush areas and lodgepole pine.
- Eutamius amoenus – Yellow Pine Chipmunk
- Habitat: Open to semi-open coniferous forests, clearings,
- large brushy areas, and rocky places from lowlands to high
- mountains.
- Marmota Flaviventris – Yellow-bellied Marmot
- Habitat: Talus slides, outcroppingss, rimrock, old log piles,
- under old buildings, and in burrows in cut banks.
- Spermophilus townsendii – Townsend’s Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Mixed sagegrass areas expecially where small patches
- of grass occur in the sagebrush. Colonies often located on
- hillsides. Prefers hotter, drier areas.
- Spermophilus beldingi – Belding’s Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Meadows and open juniper slopes, sparse timber, and brush.
- Spermophilus lateralis – Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Open coniferous forest, clearings, and rocky
- outcroppings. Particularly familiar in campgrounds and picnic areas.
- Tamiascurus douglasii – Douglas Squirrel
- Habitat: Primarily coniferous forests.
- Spermophilus washintoni – Washington Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Grasslands either extensive or scattered throughout
- sagebrush, as well as roadside ditches and edges of grain fields.
- Spermophilus columbianus – Columbian Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Grasslands, meadows, and grain fields.
- Tamiascurus hudsonicus – Red Squirrel
- Habitat: Primarily coniferous forests.
- Glaucomys sabrinus – Northern Flying Squirrel
- Habitat: Prefers coniferous forests, frequenting and most
- common in the denser portions where the thick canopy lessens
- the penetration of light.
- Family Geomyidae [Pocket Gophers]
-
- Thomomys talpoides – Northern Pocket Gopher
- Habitat: Open to semi-open areas particularly meadow,
- grasslands and pastures where soft soil is present for
- burrowing.
- Thomomys townsendii – Townsend’s Pocket Gopher
- Habitat: Moist river valleys and irrigated regions. Frequents
- sides of ditches and irrigation canals. Found in very restricted
- areas.
- Family Heteromyidae [Pocket Mice]
-
- Perognathus parvus – Great Basin Pocket Mouse
- Habitat: Sagebrush, bitterbrush, and rabbitbrush areas
- as well as grassy places and nearby grain fields.
- Dipodomys ordii – Ord’s Kangaroo Rat
- Habitat: Open sandy or soft soil areas with sparse cover of
- vegetation, such as sagebrush, forbs or grasses.
- Family Castoridae [Beaver]
-
- Castor canadensis – Beaver
- Habitat: Semi-aquatic, restricting itself closely to streams and
- standing water such as ponds and small lakes.
- Family Criceditae [New World Rats and Mice]
-
- Reithrodontomys megalotus – Western Harvest Mouse
- Habitat: Dense grass in dry, open, semi-desert areas.
- Peromyscus crinitus – Canyon Mouse
- Habitat: Rocky slides and crevices in cliffs in hot, dry
- canyons in open, desert country.
- Peromyscus maniculatus – Deer Mouse
- Habitat: Prefers coniferous forests, can also be found in grain
- fields, weedy fence rows and ditches, sagebrush and slide rock.
- Onychomys leucogaster – Northern Grasshopper Mouse
- Habitat: Mostly restricted to sagebrush.
- Neptoma cinerea – Bushy-tailed Woodrat
- Habitat: Prefers slide rock, cliff and canyon areas, caves, mines
- and old abandoned buildings. Found both in foresed and open
- desert regions.
- Microtus longicaudus – Long-tailed Meadow Mouse
- Habitat: Isolated, moist, grassy areas along streams or ditches,
- sagebrush plains and bunchgrass prairies.
- Peromyscus truci – Pinyon Mouse
- Habitat: Open forest areas, juniper, brush and rocky areas.
- Lagarus curtatus – Sagebrush Vole
- Habitat: Grassy sagebrush and bunchgrass. Could use
- hollowed out cow chips for shelter.
- Phenacomys intermedius – Heather Vole
- Habitat: Found in a wide range of habitats, though prefers
- open, forest vegetation in drier sites near water.
- Arvicola richardsoni – Water Vole
- Habitat: Restricted to stream banks, moist meadows, and lake
- shores in forested mountain areas.
- Microtus montanus – Montane Vole
- Habitat: Moist, weedy, or brushy areas near water at edge of
- grasslands.
- Ondatra zibethicus – Muskrat
- Habitat: Marshes, swamps, streams, rivers, and lakes mostly
- in the lowlands.
- Family Zapodidae [Jumping Mice]
-
- Zapus princeps – Western Jumping Mouse
- Habitat: Wet meadows, bogs, streamside brush, and grassy
- places near water and forested areas.
- Family Muridae [Old World Rats and Mice]
-
- Mus musculus – House Mouse
- Habitat: Widespread distribution wherever man exists.
- Family Erethizontidae [Porcupines]
-
- Erethizon dorsatum – Porcupine
- Habitat: Mostly restricted to coniferous forests, especially
- the more open stands. May occur in deciduous woods and
- occasionally away from timber in sagebrush.
- Order Carnivora
- Family Canidae [Wolves, Foxes and Coyote]
-
- Canis latrans – Coyote
- Habitat: Most numerous in open prairies or desert type
- environments. Less common but present in denser forest
- areas.
- Canis lupus – Gray Wolf
- Habitat: May occur in all types of natural, terrestrial habitat.
- Numbers are greatly reduced and is extremely rare.
- Vulpes vulpes – Red Fox
- Habitat: Occurs in a variety of habitats, though preferring
- semi-open terrain of foothills and mountains.
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus – Gray Fox
- Habitat: Open timber, brush, rocks and cliffs.
- Family Ursidae [Bears]
-
- Ursus americanus – Black Bear
- Habitat: Prefers forested or wooded habitats, as well as
- swamps. Commonly visit open berry patches in burned or
- subalpine areas when the fruit is ripe.
- Family Procynoidae [Raccoons]
-
- Procyon lotor – Raccoon
- Habitat: Brushy or wooded areas near water at low elevations.
- Family Mustelidae [Weasels, Skunks, Badgers and Otters]
-
- Martes americana – Marten
- Habitat: Occurs very rarely in the coniferous forests, mostly of
- mountains where they frequent the ridges and subalpine woods.
- Martes pennati – Fisher
- Habitat: Occurs scatteringly and through undisturbed forest
- areas at low to intermediate elevations.
- Mustela erminea – Short-tailed Weasel
- Habitat: Occurs in a variety of habitats, though usually stays
- close to stream bottoms, rock slides, fence rows, and brush
- near water.
- Mustela frenata – Long-tailed Weasel
- Habitat: Found in a variety of habitats but prefers drier
- uplands of grass, forest and rock at all elevations.
- Mustela vison – Mink
- Habitat: Occurs mostly near water where the diet of
- muskrats, fish, frogs and other aquatic animals are
- available.
- Taxidea taxus – Badger
- Habitat: Occurs in open to semi-open country, such as sage-
- brush and grassland plains.
- Spilogale putorius – Spotted Skunk
- Habitat: Prefers brush, canyons, farmlands and farm buildings.
- Mephitus mephitus – Striped Skunk
- Habitat: Found commonly all throughout range, prefers
- marshes, farming land, and riparian growth alongs streams
- in dry country.
- Lutra canadensis – River Otter
- Habitat: Prefers lakes shores, rivers, and larger streams. Rare
- in occurance.
- Gulo gulo – Wolverine
- Habitat: Great wanderer, most likely to be seen in coniferous
- timbered areas especially in mountains.
- Family Felidae [Cats]
-
- Felis concolor – Cougar
- Habitat: Prefers mountain forests and semi-wooded canyon
- areas where deer are available. Greatly reduced in numbers.
- Felis lynx – Lynx
- Habitat: Dense coniferous forests. Extremely rare and reduced
- in numbers.
- Felis rufus – Bobcat
- Habitat: Common in broken, rocky areas and logged over
- forest land.
- Order Artiodactyla
- Family Cervidae [Deer and Elk]
-
- Cervus elaphus – Elk
- Habitat: Found mostly in mountain or foothill areas, preferring
- the semi-open forests.
- Odocoileus hemionus – Mule Deer
- Habitat: Rocky, brushy areas and open meadows. Occasionally
- found in scattered coniferous groves in open desert country.
- Odocoileus virginianus – White-tailed Deer
- Habitat: Dense forests, deciduous woods and extensive brushy
- places at low to intermediate elevations mostly near water.
- Family Antilocapridae [Pronghorn]
-
- Antilocapra americana – Pronghorn Antelope
- Habitat: Prefers open sage and grassland plains.
- Family Bovidae [Bison, Goats, Muskox and Sheep]
-
- Ovis canadensis – Big Horn Sheep
- Habitat: Restricted to open meadows and grassy slopes near cliffs
- and rocky ridges in the mountains.
- Order Insectivora
- Family Sorcidae [Shrews]
-
- Sorex vagrans – Vagrant Shrew
- Habitat: Prefers damp areas, such as marshes, wet meadows,
- ditch bottoms and sides. Rare in upper parts of mountains,
- more of a lowland species.
- Sorex monticolus – Dusky Shrew
- Habitat: Wet places along streams and in marshy, boggy areas
- in mountains, also in rockslides and outcroppings.
- Sorex merriami – Merriam’s Shrew
- Habitat: Sagebrush and grasslands, particularly sage grass and
- undisturbed bunchgrass types.
- Sorex palustris – Northern Water Shrew
- Habitat: In and along mountain and foothill streams and beaver
- ponds.
- Sorex cinereus – Preble’s Shrew
- Habitat: Brush and willow growth around springs, bogs,
- marshes and along streams. Often in open coniferous timber.
- Family Talpidae [Moles]
-
- Scapanus orarius – Coast Mole
- Habitat: Prefers drier, brushier and more timbered areas.
Order Chiroptera
- Family Vespertilionidae [Evening Bats]
- Euderma maculatum-Spotted Bat
- Habitat: These bats are found in high land ponderosa pine regions in early summer. They descend to lower-elevation deserts in august. ( From: Mammals of Washington and Oregon, Lone Pine Press )
- Myotis lucifugus – Little Brown Bat
- Habitat: Found in a variety of places, most commonly seen near water and may roost in caves.
- Myotis yamanensis – Yuma Brown Bat
- Habitat: Always near ponds, streams and lakes. By day
- under sidings or shingles, night roosts in caves.
- Myotis evotis – Long-eared Brown Bat
- Habitat: Mostly forested and wooded areas in lowlands
-
- and mountains.
- Myotis volans – Long-legged Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Trees, crevices and buildings, particularly in
- forested and wooded areas.
-
Myotis californicus – California Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Variety of wooded or forested areas, mostly near
- water.
-
Myotis leibii – Small-footed Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Open, arid, and desert type areas. Roosts in rocky
- crevices, caves, mines and old buildings. Forages commonly
- over water.
-
Lasionycteris Noctivagans – Silver-haired Bat
-
- Habitat: Forested areas at all elevations, preferring clearings,
- open waterways and lakes.
-
Pipistrellus hesperus – Western Pipistrelle
-
- Habitat: River canyons in the desert areas.
-
Eptesicus fuscus – Big Brown Bat
-
- Habitat: Forested areas near water, farmsteads and urban
- areas in and near towns.
-
Lasiurus cinereus – Hoary Bat
-
- Habitat: Openings in forests, as well as wooded residential
- areas in cities and towns. Often begins flying in late afternoon.
-
Piecotus townsendii – Townsend’s Big-eared Bat
-
- Habitat: Occurs in a variety of places, particularly those with
- caves, abandoned mine shafts, old buildings and crevices in
- cliffs.
-
Antrozous pallidus – Pallid Bat
-
- Habitat: River canyons in semi-arid and desert regions. Roosts
- in caves, old buildings and cliff crevices.
- Order Lagomorpha
- Family Ochotonidae [Pikas, Rabbits and Hares]
-
- Ochotona princeps – Common Pika
- Habitat: Talus slopes and rocky outcrops in the mountains and
- certain lava bed areas.
- Family Leporidae
-
- Sylvilagus idahoensis – Pygmy Rabbit
- Habitat: Tall, dense sagebrush or greasewood.
- Sylvilagus nutallii – Nuttall’s Cottontail
- Habitat: Sagebrush, dry gullies, canyons weed and tall grass
- patches, brushy thickets and orchards. Mostly at low
- elevations.
- Lepus americanus – Snowshoe Hare
- Habitat: Forested areas, woodland swamps and brush patches.
- Lepus townsendii - White-tailed Jack Rabbit
- Habitat:Grasslands and higher grassy sagebrush of the foothills
- and lower mountains.
- Lepus californicus – Black-tailed Jack Rabbit
- Habitat: Sagebrush, lower foothill grasslands and adjacent hay
- fields. Populations have become greatly reduced.
- Order Rodentia
- Family Scuiridae [Squirrels]
-
- Eutamius minimus – Least Chipmunk
- Habitat: Sagebrush areas and lodgepole pine.
- Eutamius amoenus – Yellow Pine Chipmunk
- Habitat: Open to semi-open coniferous forests, clearings,
- large brushy areas, and rocky places from lowlands to high
- mountains.
- Marmota Flaviventris – Yellow-bellied Marmot
- Habitat: Talus slides, outcroppingss, rimrock, old log piles,
- under old buildings, and in burrows in cut banks.
- Spermophilus townsendii – Townsend’s Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Mixed sagegrass areas expecially where small patches
- of grass occur in the sagebrush. Colonies often located on
- hillsides. Prefers hotter, drier areas.
- Spermophilus beldingi – Belding’s Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Meadows and open juniper slopes, sparse timber, and brush.
- Spermophilus lateralis – Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Open coniferous forest, clearings, and rocky
- outcroppings. Particularly familiar in campgrounds and picnic areas.
- Tamiascurus douglasii – Douglas Squirrel
- Habitat: Primarily coniferous forests.
- Spermophilus washintoni – Washington Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Grasslands either extensive or scattered throughout
- sagebrush, as well as roadside ditches and edges of grain fields.
- Spermophilus columbianus – Columbian Ground Squirrel
- Habitat: Grasslands, meadows, and grain fields.
- Tamiascurus hudsonicus – Red Squirrel
- Habitat: Primarily coniferous forests.
- Glaucomys sabrinus – Northern Flying Squirrel
- Habitat: Prefers coniferous forests, frequenting and most
- common in the denser portions where the thick canopy lessens
- the penetration of light.
- Family Geomyidae [Pocket Gophers]
-
- Thomomys talpoides – Northern Pocket Gopher
- Habitat: Open to semi-open areas particularly meadow,
- grasslands and pastures where soft soil is present for
- burrowing.
- Thomomys townsendii – Townsend’s Pocket Gopher
- Habitat: Moist river valleys and irrigated regions. Frequents
- sides of ditches and irrigation canals. Found in very restricted
- areas.
- Family Heteromyidae [Pocket Mice]
-
- Perognathus parvus – Great Basin Pocket Mouse
- Habitat: Sagebrush, bitterbrush, and rabbitbrush areas
- as well as grassy places and nearby grain fields.
- Dipodomys ordii – Ord’s Kangaroo Rat
- Habitat: Open sandy or soft soil areas with sparse cover of
- vegetation, such as sagebrush, forbs or grasses.
- Family Castoridae [Beaver]
-
- Castor canadensis – Beaver
- Habitat: Semi-aquatic, restricting itself closely to streams and
- standing water such as ponds and small lakes.
- Family Criceditae [New World Rats and Mice]
-
- Reithrodontomys megalotus – Western Harvest Mouse
- Habitat: Dense grass in dry, open, semi-desert areas.
- Peromyscus crinitus – Canyon Mouse
- Habitat: Rocky slides and crevices in cliffs in hot, dry
- canyons in open, desert country.
- Peromyscus maniculatus – Deer Mouse
- Habitat: Prefers coniferous forests, can also be found in grain
- fields, weedy fence rows and ditches, sagebrush and slide rock.
- Onychomys leucogaster – Northern Grasshopper Mouse
- Habitat: Mostly restricted to sagebrush.
- Neptoma cinerea – Bushy-tailed Woodrat
- Habitat: Prefers slide rock, cliff and canyon areas, caves, mines
- and old abandoned buildings. Found both in foresed and open
- desert regions.
- Microtus longicaudus – Long-tailed Meadow Mouse
- Habitat: Isolated, moist, grassy areas along streams or ditches,
- sagebrush plains and bunchgrass prairies.
- Peromyscus truci – Pinyon Mouse
- Habitat: Open forest areas, juniper, brush and rocky areas.
- Lagarus curtatus – Sagebrush Vole
- Habitat: Grassy sagebrush and bunchgrass. Could use
- hollowed out cow chips for shelter.
- Phenacomys intermedius – Heather Vole
- Habitat: Found in a wide range of habitats, though prefers
- open, forest vegetation in drier sites near water.
- Arvicola richardsoni – Water Vole
- Habitat: Restricted to stream banks, moist meadows, and lake
- shores in forested mountain areas.
- Microtus montanus – Montane Vole
- Habitat: Moist, weedy, or brushy areas near water at edge of
- grasslands.
- Ondatra zibethicus – Muskrat
- Habitat: Marshes, swamps, streams, rivers, and lakes mostly
- in the lowlands.
- Family Zapodidae [Jumping Mice]
-
- Zapus princeps – Western Jumping Mouse
- Habitat: Wet meadows, bogs, streamside brush, and grassy
- places near water and forested areas.
- Family Muridae [Old World Rats and Mice]
-
- Mus musculus – House Mouse
- Habitat: Widespread distribution wherever man exists.
- Family Erethizontidae [Porcupines]
-
- Erethizon dorsatum – Porcupine
- Habitat: Mostly restricted to coniferous forests, especially
- the more open stands. May occur in deciduous woods and
- occasionally away from timber in sagebrush.
- Order Carnivora
- Family Canidae [Wolves, Foxes and Coyote]
-
- Canis latrans – Coyote
- Habitat: Most numerous in open prairies or desert type
- environments. Less common but present in denser forest
- areas.
- Canis lupus – Gray Wolf
- Habitat: May occur in all types of natural, terrestrial habitat.
- Numbers are greatly reduced and is extremely rare.
- Vulpes vulpes – Red Fox
- Habitat: Occurs in a variety of habitats, though preferring
- semi-open terrain of foothills and mountains.
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus – Gray Fox
- Habitat: Open timber, brush, rocks and cliffs.
- Family Ursidae [Bears]
-
- Ursus americanus – Black Bear
- Habitat: Prefers forested or wooded habitats, as well as
- swamps. Commonly visit open berry patches in burned or
- subalpine areas when the fruit is ripe.
- Family Procynoidae [Raccoons]
-
- Procyon lotor – Raccoon
- Habitat: Brushy or wooded areas near water at low elevations.
- Family Mustelidae [Weasels, Skunks, Badgers and Otters]
-
- Martes americana – Marten
- Habitat: Occurs very rarely in the coniferous forests, mostly of
- mountains where they frequent the ridges and subalpine woods.
- Martes pennati – Fisher
- Habitat: Occurs scatteringly and through undisturbed forest
- areas at low to intermediate elevations.
- Mustela erminea – Short-tailed Weasel
- Habitat: Occurs in a variety of habitats, though usually stays
- close to stream bottoms, rock slides, fence rows, and brush
- near water.
- Mustela frenata – Long-tailed Weasel
- Habitat: Found in a variety of habitats but prefers drier
- uplands of grass, forest and rock at all elevations.
- Mustela vison – Mink
- Habitat: Occurs mostly near water where the diet of
- muskrats, fish, frogs and other aquatic animals are
- available.
- Taxidea taxus – Badger
- Habitat: Occurs in open to semi-open country, such as sage-
- brush and grassland plains.
- Spilogale putorius – Spotted Skunk
- Habitat: Prefers brush, canyons, farmlands and farm buildings.
- Mephitus mephitus – Striped Skunk
- Habitat: Found commonly all throughout range, prefers
- marshes, farming land, and riparian growth alongs streams
- in dry country.
- Lutra canadensis – River Otter
- Habitat: Prefers lakes shores, rivers, and larger streams. Rare
- in occurance.
- Gulo gulo – Wolverine
- Habitat: Great wanderer, most likely to be seen in coniferous
- timbered areas especially in mountains.
- Family Felidae [Cats]
-
- Felis concolor – Cougar
- Habitat: Prefers mountain forests and semi-wooded canyon
- areas where deer are available. Greatly reduced in numbers.
- Felis lynx – Lynx
- Habitat: Dense coniferous forests. Extremely rare and reduced
- in numbers.
- Felis rufus – Bobcat
- Habitat: Common in broken, rocky areas and logged over
- forest land.
- Order Artiodactyla
- Family Cervidae [Deer and Elk]
-
- Cervus elaphus – Elk
- Habitat: Found mostly in mountain or foothill areas, preferring
- the semi-open forests.
- Odocoileus hemionus – Mule Deer
- Habitat: Rocky, brushy areas and open meadows. Occasionally
- found in scattered coniferous groves in open desert country.
- Odocoileus virginianus – White-tailed Deer
- Habitat: Dense forests, deciduous woods and extensive brushy
- places at low to intermediate elevations mostly near water.
- Family Antilocapridae [Pronghorn]
-
- Antilocapra americana – Pronghorn Antelope
- Habitat: Prefers open sage and grassland plains.
- Family Bovidae [Bison, Goats, Muskox and Sheep]
-
- Ovis canadensis – Big Horn Sheep
- Habitat: Restricted to open meadows and grassy slopes near cliffs
- and rocky ridges in the mountains.
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