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Mammals

White-tailed deer

Mammals of the Refuge and Surrounding Areas

Virginia opossum
American mink   Mustela vison
Big brown bat   Eptesicus fuscus
Black rat (house rat)   Rattus rattus
Coyote   Canis latrans
Eastern cottontail   Sylvilagus floridanus
Eastern mole   Scalopus aquaticus
Eastern   Pipistrelle Pipistrellus subflavus
Eastern red bat   Lasiurus borealis
Evening bat   Nycticeius humeralis
Gray fox   Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Gray squirrel   Sciurus carolinensis
Hoary bat   Lasiurus cinereus
House mouse   Mus musculus
Hutchen's cottontail   Sylvilagus floridanu hutchensi
Least shrew   Cryptotis parva
Little brown bat   Myotis lucifugus
Marsh rice rat   Oryzomys palustris
Meadow jumping mouse   Zapus hudsonius
Meadow vole   Microtus pennsylvanicus 
Muskrat   Ondatra zibethicus
Northern bat   Myotis septentrionalis
Northern short-tailed shrew   Blarina brevicauda
Norway rat (brown rat)   Rattus norvegicus
Pine (woodland) vole   Microtus pinetorum
Raccoon   Procyon lotor
Red fox   Vulpes vulpes
River otter   Lontra canadensis
Silver-haired bat   Lasionycteris noctivagans
Southern flying squirrel   Glaucomys volans
Star-nosed mole   Condylura cristata
Virginia opossum   Didelphis virginiana
White-footed mouse   Peromyscus leucopus
White-tailed deer   Odocoileus virginianus
Marine mammals (5)
Atlantic Right Whale   Eubalaena glacialis
Finback whale   Balaenoptera physalus
Harbor Seal   Phoca vitulina
Humpback whale   Megaptera novaeangliae
Sei Whale   Balaenoptera borealis  

Updated: March 13, 2008

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