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Animals of the Milk River Area


 
Amphibians
Fish
Mammals
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Pronghorn. From postcard of Alberta. 
Photo by Frans Brouwers.

C - common (seen by many people)
U - uncommon (occasionally spotted by people)
R - rare (rarely seen by people)
H - hypothetical (found in the surrounding area but not recoreded in Writing-On-Stone Park)
E - extripated (no longer found in the Milk River area)

This checklist is adopted from the Fish, Amphibians, Repitles & Mammals pamphlet and from the Birds pamphlet of Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park.

Amphibians
 
Blotched tiger Salamander (U)
Ambystoma tigrinum melanostictum		 Boreal Chorus Frog (U)
Pseudacris triseriata maculata
Northern Leopard Frog (R)
Rana pipiens		 Plains Spadefoot Toad (R)
Scaphiopus bombifrons
Canadian Toad (H)
Bufo americanus hemiophrys		 Great Plains Toad (H)
Bufo cognatus

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Fish

 
Northern Pike (R)
Esox lucius		 Finescale Dace (R)
Chrosomus neogaeus
Lake Chub (C)
Couesius plumbeus		 Brassy Minnow (U)
Hybognathus hankinsoni
Sauger (C)
Stizostedion canadense		 Fathead Minnow (C)
Pimephales promelas
Flathead Chub (C)
Platygobio gracilis		 Longnose Dace (C)
Rhinichthys cataractae
Longnose Sucker (C)
Catostomus catostomus		 White Sucker (C)
Catostomus commersoni
Mountain Sucker (U)
Cataostomus platyrhynchus		 Stonecat (U)
Notorus flavus

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Mammals

 
Masked Shrew (H)
Sores Cinereus		 Prairie Shrew (H)
Sorex haydeni
Dusky Shrew (H)
Sorex monticolus		 Little Brown Bat (C)
Myotis lucifugis
Long-eared Bat (U)
Myotis evotis		 Long-legged Bat (C)
Myotis volans
Western Small-footed Bat (U)
Myotis ciliolabrum		 Big Brown Bat (R)
Eptesicus fuscus
Silver-haired Bat (R)
Lasionycterus noctivagans		 Hoary Bat (U)
Lasiurus cinereus
Nuttall's Cottontail (C)
Sylvilagus nuttallii		 White-tailed Prairie Hare (U)
Lepus towndendii
Yellow Bellied Marmot (C)
Marmota flaviventris		 Richardson's Ground Squirrel (R)
Spermophilus richardsonii
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel (R)
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus		 Northern Pocket Gopher (U)
thomomys talpoides
Olive-backed Pocket Mouse (H)
Perognathus fasciatus		 Beaver (C)
Castor canadensis
Western Harvest Mouse (H)
Reithrodontomys megalotis		 Deer Mouse (C)
Peromyscus maniculatus
Northern Grasshopper Mouse (H)
Onychomys leucogaster		 Bushy-tailed Wood Rat (C)
Neotoma cinera
Muskrat (U)
Ondatra zibethicus		 Meadow Vole (C)
Microtus pennsylvanicus
Sagebrush Vole (H)
Lagurus curtatus		 Long-tailed Vole (H)
Microtus longicaudus
House Mouse (H)
Mus musculus		 Western Jumping Mouse (H)
Zapus pricepes
Porcupine (U)
Erethizon dorsatum		 Coyote (U)
Canis latrans
Gray Wolf (E)
Canis lupus irremotus		 Red Fox (H)
Vulpes vulpes
Swift Fox (H/E) 
Vulpes velox		 Plains Grizzly Bear (E)
Ursus arctos
Racoon (U)
Procyon lotor		 Long-tailed Weasel (R)
Mustela frenata
Mink (R)
Mustela vision		 Badger (R)
Taxidea taxus
Striped Skunk (C)
Mephitis mephitis		 Bobcat (R)
Lynx rufus
Mountain Lion (E)
Felis concolor		 Mule Deer (C)
Odocoileus hemionus
White-tailed Deer (R)
Odocoileus virginanus		 Elk (Wapiti) (R)
Cervus elaphus
Pronghorn (Antelope) (U)
Antilocarpra americana		 Plains Bison (E)
Bison bison bison

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Reptiles

 
Western Painted Turtle (H)
Chrysemys picta belli		 Eastern Short-horned Lizard (H)
Phrynosoma douglassi brevirostre
Wandering Garter Snake (R)
Thamnophis elegans vagrans		 Plains Garter Snake (H)
Thamnophis radix
Bull Snake (U)
Pitophis melanoleucus sayi		 Prairie Rattlesnake (C)
Crotalus viridis viridis

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Animal Diversity Web
Endangered Species of Alberta
Reptiles & Amphibians (by Cyberwall)
Sprucing up Wildlife Habitats
Wildlife (GORP)
Busy as a Beaver (GORP)
 

    For more information:
  • Cook, Francis R., 1984. Introduction to the Reptiles of Canada. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 200pp.
  • Spalding, David A.E., editor, 1980. A Nature Guide to Alberta. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 368pp.

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