Carnivores Rabbits Turtles  Coyote   Snapping Turtle  Hellbender  Red Fox  Eastern Musk Turtle  Eastern HIGHLANDS BIOLOGICAL STATION  Gray Fox Rodents  Painted Turtle  Spotted 265 N. 6th St., Highlands, NC 28741  Black Bear  Eastern Chipmunk  Bog Turtle  Green Salamander  Raccoon  Woodchuck  Eastern Box Turtle  Four-toed Salamander (828) 526-2602 highlandsbiological.org  Least Weasel  Gray Squirrel  Seal Salamander  Long-tailed Weasel  Red Squirrel  Ocoee Salamander  Mink  Southern Flying Squirrel  Eastern Fence  Shovel-nosed Salamander  Eastern Spotted Skunk  Beaver  Coal Skink  Black-bellied Salamander  Striped Skunk  Deer Mouse  Five-lined Skink  Pygmy Salamander Wildlife  River Otter  White-footed Mouse  Broadhead Skink  Blue Ridge Two-lined Salamander  Bobcat  Golden Mouse  Spring Salamander of the  (non-venomous)  Moles and  Southeren Red-backed Vole  Worm  Gray-cheeked Salamander  Hairy-tailed Mole  Meadow Vole  Black Racer  Southern Red-backed Salamander Highlands Plateau  Eastern Mole  Pine Vole  Ringneck Snake  Southern Appalachian Salamander  Star-nosed Mole  Muskrat  Corn Snake  Masked  Southern Bog Lemming  Black Rat Snake Toads  Pygmy Shrew  Norway Rat  Eastern Milksnake  American Toad  Southeastern Shrew  House Mouse  Northern Water Snake  Fowler’s Toad Checklists for fauna found in  Smoky Shrew   Queen Snake  Northern Short-tailed Shrew  Meadow Jumping Mouse  Brown Snake Treefrogs and around Highlands Botanical  Redbelly Snake  Gray Treefrog Garden and Nature Center Bats Hoofed Mammals  Eastern Ribbon Snake  Spring Peeper  Little Brown Bat  Wild Pig  Eastern Bat  White-tailed Deer  Silver-haired Bat Snakes (venomous)  Bullfrog  Eastern Pipistrelle Marsupials  Copperhead  Green  Big Brown Bat  Opossum  Timber  Pickerel Frog  Red Bat  Wood Frog  Hoary Bat  Evening Bat  Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bat

Part of the Highlands Plateau Greenway & North Carolina Birding Trail Flycatchers Wrens Game Birds  Eastern Wood-pewee Thrushes   Acadian Flycatcher  Eastern Bluebird  House Wren  Ruffed Grouse  Willow Flycatcher  American Robin  Winter Wren Grebes  Wild Turkey  Least Flycatcher   Pied-billed  Eastern Phoebe  Veery Starlings and Waxwings Shorebirds  Great Crested Flycatcher  Swainson’s Thrush  European Starling Wading Birds  Killdeer  Eastern Kingbird  Gray-cheeked Thrush  Cedar Waxwing  Great Blue Heron  Solitary Sandpiper  Hermit Thrush  Great Egret  Spotted Sandpiper Vireos Tanagers  Green Heron  American Woodcock  Red-eyed Vireo Wood Warblers  Summer Tanager  Common Snipe  White-eyed Vireo  Northern Parula  Scarlet Tanager Geese and Ducks  Yellow-throated Vireo  Orange-crowned Warbler  Goose Pigeons and Doves  Blue-headed Vireo  Tennessee Warbler Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Buntings  Wood Duck  Mourning Dove  Blue-winged Warbler   Mallard  Rock Dove Jays, Crows, and Ravens  Golden-winged Warbler  Rose-breasted Grosbeak  American Black Duck  Blue Jay  Nashville Warbler  Indigo Bunting  Gadwall Cuckoos  American Crow  Yellow Warbler  Northern Pintail  Yellow-billed Cuckoo  Common Raven  Chestnut-sided Warbler Sparrows and Old World Sparrows  American Wigeon  Black-billed Cuckoo  Magnolia Warbler  Eastern Towhee  Blue-winged Teal Martins and Swallows  Cape May Warbler  Field Sparrow  Green-winged Teal Owls  Purple Martin  Black-throated Blue Warbler  Chipping Sparrow  Ring-necked Duck   Northern Rough-winged Swallow  Cerulean Warbler  Savannah Sparrow  Lesser Scaup   Tree Swallow  Blackburnian Warbler  White-throated Sparrow  Bufflehead   Barn Swallow  Yellow-rumped Warbler  Fox Sparrow  Hooded Merganser  Black-throated Green Warbler  Song Sparrow  Ruddy Duck Nightjars and Nighthawks Titmice and Chickadees  Prairie Warbler  Swamp Sparrow  Whip-poor-will   Palm Warbler  Dark-eyed Junco Coots  Chuck-will’s-widow  Black-capped Chickadee  Pine Warbler  House Sparrow  American Coot  Common Nighthawk  Carolina Chickadee  Bay-breasted Warbler  Blackpoll Warbler Meadowlarks, Blackbirds, and Orioles Diurnal Raptors Swifts Nuthatches and Creepers  Yellow-throated Warbler  Eastern Meadowlark  Turkey Vulture  Chimney Swift  Red-breasted Nuthatch  Worm-eating Warbler  Brown-headed Cowbird  Black Vulture  White-breasted Nuthatch  Black and White Warbler  Red-winged Blackbird  Northern Harrier Hummingbirds  Brown Creeper  American Redstart  Common Grackle  Sharp-shinned Hawk  Ruby-throated Hummingbird  Swainson’s Warbler  Baltimore Oriole  Cooper’s Hawk Kinglets and Gnatcatchers  Ovenbird  Orchard Oriole  Red-shouldered Hawk Woodpeckers  Golden-crowned Kinglet  Northern Waterthrush  Broad-winged Hawk  Red-headed Woodpecker  Ruby-crowned Kinglet  Waterthrush Finches  Red-tailed Hawk  Red-bellied Woodpecker  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  Warbler  Evening Grosbeak  Bald Eagle  Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  Common Yellowthroat  Purple Finch  Osprey  Downy Woodpecker  Wilson’s Warbler  House Finch   Hairy Woodpecker   Canada Warbler  Red Crossbill  American Kestrel   Northern  Hooded Warbler  Pine Siskin   Pileated Woodpecker  Brown  Yellow-breasted Chat  American Goldfinch