Animals

Today, Fort Vancouver is located in the heart of the community and surrounded by many commercial, industrial, residential, and aviation developments.

The widespread expansion of the activities that the Hudson's Bay Company started more than 180 years ago has left little room for native wildlife, but some species persist in this highly altered environment.

Given the urbanized nature of the habitat of the park, terrestrial habitat for wildlife is somewhat limited. The trees, meadows, orchard, garden, and waterfront areas each provide limited habitat for wildlife generally passing through the area of the park.

Below, see lists of animals identified as present or probably present at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site by the National Park Service's NPSpecies database. At the bottom of this page, find information on birds and birding at Fort Vancouver.

 
Common Name Scientific Name Occurrence
American Beaver Castor canadensis Present
American Mink Neovison vison Probably Present
American Shrew Mole, Gibb's shrew mole, least shrew mole, Shrew-mole Neurotrichus gibbsii Probably Present
Big Brown Bat Eptesicus fuscus Present
Brown Rat, Norway Rat Rattus norvegicus Probably Present
Coast Mole, Pacific Mole, red-footed mole Scapanus orarius Probably Present
Columbian black-tailed deer Odocoileus hemionus Present
Common Muskrat, Muskbeaver, Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus Probably Present
Common raccoon, northern raccoon, Raccoon Procyon lotor Present
Coronation Island vole, Long-tailed Vole Microtus longicaudus Probably Present
Coyote Canis latrans Present
Coypu, nutria Myocastor coypus Probably Present
Creeping Vole Microtus oregoni Present
Deer Mouse, North American Deermouse Peromyscus maniculatus Present
Eastern cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus Present
Eastern Gray Squirrel, gray squirrel Sciurus carolinensis Present
House Mouse Mus musculus Present
Little brown bat, little brown myotis, Little Brown Myotis Myotis lucifugus Present
Long-tailed Weasel Mustela frenata Probably Present
Pacific Jumping Mouse Zapus trinotatus Probably Present
Red Fox Vulpes vulpes Probably Present
Striped Skunk Mephitis mephitis Probably Present
Townsend's Vole Microtus townsendii Present
Vagrant shrew Sorex vagrans Present
Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana Probably Present
Western Spotted Skunk Spilogale gracilis Probably Present
 
Common Name Scientific Name Occurrence
Common Garter Snake Thamnophis sirtalis Present
Long-toed salamander Ambystoma macrodactylum Present
Northern Pacific Treefrog, Pacific Chorus Frog, Pacific Treefrog Pseudacris regilla Present
 
Common Name Scientific Name Occurrence
White-shouldered bumble bee Bombus appositus Present
California bumble bee Bombus californicus Present
Obscure bumble bee Bombus caliginosus Present
Brown-belted bumble bee Bombus griseocollis Present
Nevada bumble bee Bombus nevadensis Present
Red-belted bumble bee Bombus rufocinctus Present
Vosnesensky bumble bee, yellow-faced bumble bee Bombus vosnesenskii Present
 
Scrub jay at the Vancouver Barracks bandstand.
Birds

Learn more about birds and birding at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

Last updated: April 7, 2021

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