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1997 Census

Grand Total: 2842
Released: 1947 (68%)

Federally protected avian: 912
State protected mammal: 1572
State protected reptile: 29
State protected amphibian: 2
State protected insect: 1
Unprotected avian: 306
Exotic mammal: 1
Exotic avian: 7
Exotic reptile: 3
Unprotected domestics: 9


Domestic Species Received:

domestic chicken 1   rosie boa 1
domestic duck 6   toulouse goose 2
monarch butterfly 1   hedgehog 1
turkey 1      


Wild Species Received:

American coot 6   goldeneye 1   red-bellied woodpecker 2
American goldfinch 14   grackle 53   red-breasted nuthatch 2
American kestrel 16   great blue heron 3   red-eared slider 1
American toad 1   great-horned owl 17   red fox 4
bald eagle 2   great-tailed grackle 1   red-headed woodpecker 5
Baltimore oriole 2   green heron 1   red-shafted flicker 1
barn swallow 1   grey squirrel 235   red-tailed hawk 27
barred owl 15   hairy woodpecker 1   red-winged blackbird 1
beaver 1   hoary bat 2   ring neck dove 2
belted kingfisher 1   horned lark 1   robin 154
big brown bat 1   house finch 44   rose-breasted grosbeak 2
black & white warbler 1   house mouse 15   ruby-crowned kinglet 1
black-capped chickadee 7   house sparrow 99   ruby-throated hummingbird 4
black rat snake 1   house wren 10   rufous hummingbird 1
blue racer 1   indigo bunting 1   rufous-sided towhee 1
blue-winged teal 1   Kentucky warbler 2   savannah sparrow 1
bluejay 64   killdeer 3   scarlet tanager 1
bobcat 2   Lady Amherst pheasant. 1   scissor-tailed flycatcher 1
bobwhite quail 3   least bittern 1   screech owl 5
brown creeper 1   least shrew 1   short eared owl 1
brown thrasher 1   lesser scaup 1   skunk 5
burrowing owl 1   little brown bat 2   snapping turtle 1
Canada goose 13   loggerhead shrike 1   song sparrow 1
Canada warbler 1   long-eared owl 1   sora 1
cardinal 20   mallard 77   starling 146
Carolina wren 2   meadowlark 3   Swainson's thrush 1
cedar waxwing 7   merlin 2   thirteen lined ground squirrel 2
chimney swift 46   mink 1   tree frog 1
common garter snake. 4   mockingbird 3   tufted titmouse 1
corn snake 1   mourning dove 141   western painted turtle 1
cottontail 959   musk turtle 3   whip poor will 1
cowbird 2   nighthawk 19   whitefooted mouse 3
coyote 2   opossum 205   white tailed deer 8
crow 21   orchard oriole 1   woodchuck 2
dark eyed junco 1   ornate box turtle 14   woodduck 21
deer mouse 4   peahen and eggs 4   yellow-bellied sapsucker 1
downy woodpecker 3   pheasant 1   yellow-billed cuckoo 1
Eastern bluebird 4   pied-billed grebe 3   yellow rat snake 1
Eastern box turtle 3   pigeon 61   yellow-rumped warbler 1
Eastern chipmunk 18   purple finch 2   yellow-shafted flicker 10
Eastern kingbird 4   purple martin 5   yellow-throated warbler 1
flying squirrel 2   raccoon 76   yellow warbler 1
fox squirrel 20   red bat 2