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Table of Contents: Fauna

Birds, Fish, Insects, Mammals, Marine invertebrates, Reptiles and amphibians

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  Albatrosses Retrieve 2 sections
  American avocet Retrieve 2 sections
  American bittern Retrieve 3 sections
  American coot Retrieve 1 sections
  American crow Retrieve 3 sections
  American dipper Retrieve 1 sections
  American golden-plover Retrieve 1 sections
  American goldfinch Retrieve 3 sections
  American kestrel Retrieve 3 sections
  American oystercatcher Retrieve 3 sections
  American redstart Retrieve 3 sections
  American robin Retrieve 5 sections
  American vultures Retrieve 4 sections
  American white pelican Retrieve 1 sections
  American widgeon Retrieve 1 sections
  American woodcock Retrieve 2 sections
  Anhinga Retrieve 3 sections
  Anna hummingbird Retrieve 1 sections
  Aquatic wood wagtail Retrieve 2 sections
  Arctic ground finch Retrieve 2 sections
  Arctic puffin Retrieve 1 sections
  Arctic tern Retrieve 1 sections
  Arctic three-toed woodpecker Retrieve 1 sections
  Arkansas goldfinch Retrieve 2 sections
  Arkansaw flycatcher Retrieve 1 sections
  Atlantic puffin Retrieve 2 sections
  Audubon's woodpecker Retrieve 1 sections
  Auks Retrieve 6 sections
  Avocets and Stilts Retrieve 2 sections
  Bachman's pinewood finch Retrieve 1 sections
  Bachman's warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Baird's bunting Retrieve 1 sections
  Bald eagle Retrieve 11 sections
  Baltimore oriole Retrieve 4 sections
  Banded three-toed woodpecker Retrieve 1 sections
  Band-tailed pigeon Retrieve 1 sections
  Bank swallow Retrieve 1 sections
  Barn owl Retrieve 1 sections
  Barn swallow Retrieve 1 sections
  Barred owl Retrieve 1 sections
  Bartram's vireo Retrieve 1 sections
  Bay-breasted warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Bay-winged bunting Retrieve 1 sections
  Bell's vireo Retrieve 1 sections
  Belted kingfisher Retrieve 3 sections
  Bernacle goose Retrieve 1 sections
  Bewick's wren Retrieve 1 sections
  Bird hawks Retrieve 4 sections
  Black guillemot Retrieve 4 sections
  Black oystercatcher Retrieve 2 sections
  Black rail Retrieve 1 sections
  Black scoter Retrieve 1 sections
  Black skimmer Retrieve 3 sections
  Black tern Retrieve 1 sections
  Black vulture Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-and-white warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-and-yellow crowned finch Retrieve 2 sections
  Black-and-yellow wood warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-bellied plover Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-billed cuckoo Retrieve 1 sections
  Blackbirds Retrieve 2 sections
  Blackburnian warbler Retrieve 2 sections
  Black-capped Chickadee Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-crowned night heron Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-faced grassquit Retrieve 2 sections
  Black-footed albatross Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-headed goldfinch Retrieve 2 sections
  Black-headed grosbeak Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-necked stilt Retrieve 1 sections
  Blackpoll wood warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-shouldered hawk Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-throated blue warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-throated bunting Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-throated diver Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-throated gray warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-throated green warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-throated guillemot Retrieve 1 sections
  Black-throated waxwing Retrieve 1 sections
  Blue grey flycatcher Retrieve 1 sections
  Blue grosbeak Retrieve 3 sections
  Blue grouse Retrieve 1 sections
  Blue jay Retrieve 7 sections
  Blue mountain warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Blue yellow-backed wood warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Blue-headed quail dove Retrieve 1 sections
  Blue-headed vireo Retrieve 1 sections
  Blue-winged teal Retrieve 5 sections
  Blue-winged warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Boat-tailed grackle Retrieve 1 sections
  Bobolink Retrieve 2 sections
  Bonaparte's flycatching warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Bonaparte's gull Retrieve 1 sections
  Boreal chickadee Retrieve 1 sections
  Brant Retrieve 3 sections
  Brent goose Retrieve 1 sections
  Brewer's blackbird Retrieve 1 sections
  Brewers duck Retrieve 1 sections
  Broad-winged hawk Retrieve 1 sections
  Brown creeper Retrieve 1 sections
  Brown noddy Retrieve 4 sections
  Brown pelican Retrieve 1 sections
  Brown songfinch Retrieve 1 sections
  Brown thrasher Retrieve 2 sections
  Brown-headed cowbird Retrieve 4 sections
  Brown-headed nuthatch Retrieve 3 sections
  Buff-breasted sandpiper Retrieve 1 sections
  Bufflehead Retrieve 3 sections
  Bullock's oriole Retrieve 1 sections
  Bunting Retrieve 1 sections
  Burrowing owl Retrieve 1 sections
  Buteo Retrieve 1 sections
  California condor Retrieve 2 sections
  California nuthatch Retrieve 1 sections
  California quail Retrieve 1 sections
  Canada flycatcher Retrieve 1 sections
  Canada goose Retrieve 4 sections
  Canadian bunting Retrieve 2 sections
  Canadian woodpecker Retrieve 1 sections
  Canvasback Retrieve 2 sections
  Cape may warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Carbonated swamp warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Carolilna chickadee Retrieve 1 sections
  Carolina paroquet Retrieve 4 sections
  Carolina turtle-dove Retrieve 1 sections
  Carolina wren Retrieve 1 sections
  Cayenne tern Retrieve 1 sections
  Cedar waxwing Retrieve 3 sections
  Cerulean warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Chestnut-backed chickadee Retrieve 1 sections
  Chestnut-collared lark-bunting Retrieve 1 sections
  Chestnut-crowned titmouse Retrieve 1 sections
  Chestnut-sided warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Chimney swift Retrieve 3 sections
  Chipping bunting Retrieve 1 sections
  Chuck-will's-widow Retrieve 3 sections
  Clapper rail Retrieve 1 sections
  Clark's nutcracker Retrieve 2 sections
  Clay-coloured bunting Retrieve 1 sections
  Cliff swallow Retrieve 1 sections
  Common bluebird Retrieve 1 sections
  Common buzzard Retrieve 2 sections
  Common goldeneye Retrieve 1 sections
  Common grackle Retrieve 3 sections
  Common greenshank Retrieve 1 sections
  Common ground-dove Retrieve 3 sections
  Common merganser Retrieve 2 sections
  Common mockingbird Retrieve 5 sections
  Common moorhen Retrieve 1 sections
  Common nighthawk Retrieve 2 sections
  Common raven Retrieve 7 sections
  Common snipe Retrieve 4 sections
  Common snowbird Retrieve 1 sections
  Common troupial Retrieve 3 sections
  Connecticut warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Cooper's hawk Retrieve 1 sections
  Cormorants Retrieve 6 sections
  Cranes Retrieve 11 sections
  Creepers Retrieve 1 sections
  Creeping warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Crested bobwhite Retrieve 1 sections
  Crested Caracara Retrieve 2 sections
  Crested grebe Retrieve 1 sections
  Crested purple finch Retrieve 1 sections
  Crimson-fronted purple finch Retrieve 1 sections
  Crossbill Retrieve 2 sections
  Crows and Jays Retrieve 6 sections
  Cuban bullfinch Retrieve 2 sections
  Cuckoos and Allies Retrieve 2 sections
  Curled-crested phaleris Retrieve 1 sections
  Curlew Retrieve 1 sections
  Curlew sandpiper Retrieve 1 sections
  Cuvier's kinglet Retrieve 1 sections
  Dark-eyed slate-colored junco Retrieve 2 sections
  Dipper Retrieve 1 sections
  Diving ducks Retrieve 3 sections
  Double-crested cormorant Retrieve 1 sections
  Downy woodpecker Retrieve 3 sections
  Drummond's snipe Retrieve 1 sections
  Ducks Retrieve 12 sections
  Dunlin Retrieve 1 sections
  Dusky albatross Retrieve 1 sections
  Dusky shearwater Retrieve 1 sections
  Dwarf thrush Retrieve 1 sections
  Eagles Retrieve 16 sections
  Eared grebe Retrieve 1 sections
  Eastern bluebird Retrieve 3 sections
  Eastern kingbird Retrieve 3 sections
  Eastern meadowlark Retrieve 2 sections
  Eastern phoebe Retrieve 2 sections
  Eastern screech-owl Retrieve 3 sections
  Eastern towhee Retrieve 3 sections
  Eastern wood-pewee Retrieve 2 sections
  Empidonax flycatchers Retrieve 1 sections
  Esquimaux curlew Retrieve 1 sections
  Evening grosbeak Retrieve 2 sections
  Falcons Retrieve 5 sections
  Ferriginous mockingbird Retrieve 1 sections
  Finches Retrieve 3 sections
  Fish crow Retrieve 1 sections
  Flamingos Retrieve 7 sections
  Florida cormorant Retrieve 1 sections
  Florida scrub jay Retrieve 1 sections
  Flycatching warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Fork-tailed gull Retrieve 1 sections
  Fox-coloured finch Retrieve 1 sections
  Franklin's rosy gull Retrieve 1 sections
  Frigate birds Retrieve 2 sections
  Gadwall duck Retrieve 1 sections
  Gairdner's woodpecker Retrieve 1 sections
  Gannets, Boobies Retrieve 6 sections
  Geese Retrieve 18 sections
  Gigantic fulmar Retrieve 1 sections
  Glacous gull Retrieve 1 sections
  Glossy ibis Retrieve 1 sections
  Gnatcatchers and Kinglets Retrieve 2 sections
  Goatsuckers Retrieve 2 sections
  Golden eagle Retrieve 1 sections
  Golden-crowned kinglet Retrieve 3 sections
  Golden-crowned wagtail Retrieve 1 sections
  Golden-winged warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Golden-winged woodpecker Retrieve 1 sections
  Goldfinch Retrieve 1 sections
  Gray catbird Retrieve 5 sections
  Gray jay Retrieve 2 sections
  Gray-cheeked thrush Retrieve 2 sections
  Great american shrike Retrieve 1 sections
  Great american white egret Retrieve 1 sections
  Great auk Retrieve 1 sections
  Great black-backed gull Retrieve 2 sections
  Great blue heron Retrieve 3 sections
  Great cinereous owl Retrieve 1 sections
  Great crested flycatcher Retrieve 3 sections
  Great horned owl Retrieve 4 sections
  Great white heron Retrieve 1 sections
  Greater flamingo Retrieve 1 sections
  Greater prairie chickens Retrieve 3 sections
  Greater rhea Retrieve 1 sections
  Greater roadrunner Retrieve 1 sections
  Greater scaup Retrieve 2 sections
  Greater yellowlegs Retrieve 1 sections
  Great-footed hawk Retrieve 1 sections
  Grebes Retrieve 3 sections
  Green heron Retrieve 3 sections
  Green-winged teal Retrieve 2 sections
  Grey-crowned purple finch Retrieve 1 sections
  Grosbeaks Retrieve 2 sections
  Grosbeaks, Finches, Sparrows, Buntings Retrieve 5 sections
  Ground finch Retrieve 1 sections
  Ground warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Grouse Retrieve 7 sections
  Gull-billed tern Retrieve 1 sections
  Gulls Retrieve 5 sections
  Hairy woodpecker Retrieve 3 sections
  Harlan's Red-Tailed Hawk Retrieve 1 sections
  Harlequin duck Retrieve 3 sections
  Harriers Retrieve 1 sections
  Harris' finch Retrieve 1 sections
  Harris's hawk Retrieve 1 sections
  Harris's woodpecker Retrieve 1 sections
  Havell's tern Retrieve 1 sections
  Heath hen Retrieve 2 sections
  Henslow's bunting Retrieve 1 sections
  Hermit warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Herons, Bitterns Retrieve 3 sections
  Herring gull Retrieve 1 sections
  Hooded Flycatching warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Hooded merganser Retrieve 3 sections
  Horned grebe Retrieve 1 sections
  Horned lark Retrieve 2 sections
  Horned-billed guillemot Retrieve 1 sections
  House wren Retrieve 2 sections
  Hudsonian curlew Retrieve 1 sections
  Hudsonian godwit Retrieve 1 sections
  Hummingbirds Retrieve 16 sections
  Hutchins goose Retrieve 1 sections
  Ibises and Spoonbills Retrieve 3 sections
  Iceland falcon Retrieve 1 sections
  Imperial woodpecker Retrieve 1 sections
  Indigo bunting Retrieve 5 sections
  Ivory gull Retrieve 1 sections
  Ivory-billed woodpecker Retrieve 3 sections
  Jaegers, Skuas Retrieve 1 sections
  Kentucky warbler Retrieve 1 sections
  Key West quail dove Retrieve 1 sections
  Killdeer Retrieve 3 sections
  King duck Retrieve 1 sections
  King rail Retrieve 1 sections
  Kingfishers Retrieve 3 sections
  Kites Retrieve 1 sections
  Kittiwake gull Retrieve 1 sections
  Knobbed-billed phaleris Retrieve 1 sections
  Lapland lark-bunting Retrieve 1 sections
  Large-billed guillemot Retrieve 1 sections