Carnivores Rabbits Turtles Salamanders Coyote Eastern Cottontail Snapping Turtle Hellbender Red Fox Eastern Musk Turtle Eastern Newt HIGHLANDS BIOLOGICAL STATION Gray Fox Rodents Painted Turtle Spotted Salamander 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 Lizards Ocoee Salamander Mink Southern Flying Squirrel Eastern Fence Lizard 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 Eastern Woodrat Snakes (non-venomous) Red Salamander Moles and Shrews Southeren Red-backed Vole Worm Snake 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 Shrew 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 Woodland Jumping Mouse 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 Garter Snake Indiana Bat White-tailed Deer Frogs Silver-haired Bat Snakes (venomous) Bullfrog Eastern Pipistrelle Marsupials Copperhead Green Frog Big Brown Bat Opossum Timber Rattlesnake 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 Birds Game Birds Eastern Wood-pewee Thrushes Carolina Wren Northern Bobwhite Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Bluebird House Wren Ruffed Grouse Willow Flycatcher American Robin Winter Wren Grebes Wild Turkey Least Flycatcher Wood Thrush 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 Canada Goose Pigeons and Doves Blue-headed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Buntings Wood Duck Mourning Dove Blue-winged Warbler Northern Cardinal 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 Great Horned Owl Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cerulean Warbler Savannah Sparrow Lesser Scaup Barred Owl Tree Swallow Blackburnian Warbler White-throated Sparrow Bufflehead Eastern Screech Owl 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 Tufted Titmouse 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 Louisiana Waterthrush Finches Red-tailed Hawk Red-bellied Woodpecker Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Kentucky Warbler Evening Grosbeak Bald Eagle Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Common Yellowthroat Purple Finch Osprey Downy Woodpecker Thrashers Wilson’s Warbler House Finch Merlin Hairy Woodpecker Gray Catbird Canada Warbler Red Crossbill American Kestrel Northern Flicker Northern Mockingbird Hooded Warbler Pine Siskin Peregrine Falcon Pileated Woodpecker Brown Thrasher Yellow-breasted Chat American Goldfinch