Bats MAMMAL CHECKLIST Woodchuck (Ground Hog)
Photo by Marvin Powers Raccoon Big Brown Bat One bat eats Eastern Pipistrelle between 600 River Otter and 1,000 insects Eastern Cottontail Rabbit Red Bat per hour! That’s a lot of mosquitoes Evening Bat every night! Beaver Hunted to the point where they were listed extinct Silver-haired Bat in VA in 1911, beavers were reintroduced in
Southern Myotis Gray Squirrel Long-Tailed Weasel Mice (7 Species) Little Brown Myotis Coyote Voles (2 Species) Eastern Red Bat White Tailed Deer Shrews (6 Species) Squirrels Black Bear Moles (2 Species) Eastern Gray Squirrel Opossum Wood Rat
Striped Skunk Powers Marvin Southern Flying Squirrel Although extremely rare in this area, one Muskrat Fox was found south of this location in 2004. Nutria Mink Red Fox Native to South America, the Nutria was introduced into Louisiana in the 1930’s for Bobcat Gray Fox fur farming. Today it is considered a pest Bobcat as it destroys wetlands. Chipmunk
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Photo by Marvin Powers Chesapeake, VA take I-64 ISMAL towards Suffolk, or from Western Branch take I-64
toward Virginia Beach. WAMP Take Exit 291B for Rt. 17-SOUTH. ANAL Follow Rt. 17 South beyond intersection w/Rt. 165 RAIL Turn RIGHT onto Rt. 17 Bus (George Washington Hwy.) MAMMAL GUIDE Opossum About 1/2 mile to trail;
entrance on LEFT. Photo by Marvin Powers
• From Elizabeth City, NC I’m watching you! take Rt. 17 NORTH. Turn LEFT onto 17 Bus Mammals (George Washington Hwy.) About 1/2 mile to trail; here are nearly 5,000 species entrance on LEFT. T of living mammals. They are divided into three subclasses and roughly 26 orders. Mammals are a Raccoon class of animals that have body hair, 3 middle ear bones (the Take a break. . . . Recre-8!™ Explore the malleus, incus, and stapes), and Great Dismal Swamp nurture their offspring with milk that from our 8.5 miles of safe, females produce in modified sweat paved, multi-use trail! The only glands called mammary glands. one of its kind in the U.S. Signs of Activity Rich in history, the Great Dismal • Tracks in the mud Swamp has intrigued man • Scat (excrement) for centuries. • Paths The trail is open year-round from This park contains rare and • Bank slides (worn mud paths) sunrise to sunset. • Nests (mounded earth, dams, endangered species! For more information, contact debris piles, hollow logs, Chesapeake Parks and Recreation Please proceed with care. flattened grasses) at (757) 382-6411. Do not attempt to feed or • Food caches or half-eaten food By Outdoor Programmer, Kevin Kaul approach any wild animals!