NPS photo

Sandhill cranes

Though animal life is abundant within the Lakeshore, visitors often do not see many animals during their visit beyond chipmunks and perching birds. A walk down park trails may reveal bear scat, a pile of pine cone bracts from a feeding red squirrel, or the chatter of a chipmunk.

Animal life in this varied habitat of wetland, sand dune, cliff, and northern hardwood forests includes white-tailed deer, black bear, wolves, and an occasional moose. Smaller animals include a variety of migratory and nesting perching birds as well as bald eagle, osprey, raven, and barred owl and broad-winged hawks. Fisher, mink, marten, beaver, skunk, red squirrel, and numerous species of small mammals such as shrews and mice inhabit various Lakeshore habitats.