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Cheyenne Bottoms Mammals Hispid pocket mouse Chaetodipus hispidus Ord’s kangaroo rat Dipodomys ordii CHEYENNE Beaver Castor canadensis BOTTOMS Western harvest mouse Reithrodontomys megalotis Plains harvest mouse Reithrodontomys montanus MAMMALS White-footed mouse Peromyscus leucopus Deer mouse FOX SQUIRREL Peromyscus maniculatus Northern grasshopper mouse Onychomys leucogaster Hispid cotton rat Sigmodon hispidus Eastern woodrat Neotoma floridana Prairie vole Microtus ochrogaster MUSKRAT Southern bog lemming VIRGINIA OPOSSUM Synaptomys cooperi Muskrat Thanks to Ondatra zibethicus Curtis Schmidt at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History and House mouse Curtis Wolf at Kansas Wetland Education Center Mus musculus for expertise in updating this list. Norway rat Funded in part by your Rattus norvegicus hunting license dollars and Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area the federal excise tax on 56 NE 40 Rd. sporting arms and ammunition Great Bend, KS 67530 for wildlife restoration (620) 793-7730 (24-hr. Hotline) (620) 793-3066 (Area Office) Equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from programs (620) 227-8609 (Regional Office) described herein is available to all individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, political affiliation, and military or veteran status. Complaints of discrimination should be sent to Office of the Department Website: Secretary, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, 1020 WHITE-FOOTED MOUSE S Kansas Ave., Topeka, KS 66612-1327. 06/20 www.ksoutdoors.com DEER Eastern red bat Mule deer Lasiurus borealis MAMMALS Odocoileus hemionus Hoary bat orty-three species of mammals White-tailed deer Aeorestes cinereus Fhave been identified at Odocoileus virginianus Evening bat Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area. Nycticeius humeralis Mammals are defined by having CARNIVORES OPOSSUMS hair or fur, giving live birth, and Coyote Virginia opossum nursing young outside their Canis latrans Didelphis virginiana mother’s body. Red fox Each mammal has a diverse Vulpes vulpes SHREWS and MOLES ecological role at the wetlands; Long-tailed weasel Elliot’s short-tailed shrew larger mammals such as bobcats Mustela frenata Blarina hylophaga and badgers are predators and prey Least weasel Least shrew on smaller mammal species, such Mustela nivalis Cryptotis parvus as rodents. Some mammals, such as Mink Eastern mole deer, rabbits and most rodents are Neovison vison Scalopus aquaticus herbivores – meaning they only eat American badger plants and plant seeds – while Taxidea taxus RABBITS and HARES others such as coyotes, opossums, Striped skunk Mephitis mephitis Black-tailed jackrabbit raccoons and skunks are omnivores Lepus californicus and eat a variety of foods. Many of Raccoon Procyon lotor Eastern cottontail the smaller mammal species are Sylvilagus floridanus preyed upon by several species of Bobcat Lynx rufus predators and omnivores, such as RODENTS large wading birds, raptors, red ARMADILLOS Thirteen-lined ground squirrel foxes and reptiles. Bats are ARMADILLOS Ictidomys tridecemlineatus insectivores and feed on insects. Nine-banded armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus Black-tailed prairie dog One of the more unique Cynomys ludovicianus mammal species that can easily be Fox squirrel seen in the marsh are muskrats. BATS Sciurus niger Look for them swimming at the Big brown bat Plains pocket gopher water’s surface or search for their Eptesicus fuscus Geomys bursarius homes, which are made of piles of Silver-haired bat Plains pocket mouse dry cattails and mud among cattails. Lasionycteris noctivagans Perognathus flavescens.
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