Waubay National Wildlife Refuge and Wetland Management District
Mountain-Prairie Region

mammal checklist

 

____Virginia Opossum ____Arctic shrew ____Masked shrew
____Hayden's shrew ____Water shrew ____Pygmy shrew
____Northern short-tailed shrew ____Northern myotis ____Little brown bat
____Silver-haired bat ____Big brown bat ____Eastern red bat
____Hoary bat ____Eastern cottontail ____White-tailed jackrabbit
____Eastern chipmunk ____Woodchuck ____Franklin's ground squirrel
____Richardson's ground squirrel ____Thirteen-lined squirrel ____Eastern gray squirrel
____Eastern fox squirrel ____Northern pocket gopher ____Plains pocket gopher
____Plains pocket mouse ____Beaver ____Western harvest mouse
____White-footed mouse ____Deer mouse ____Northern grasshopper mouse
____Southern red-backed vole ____Prairie vole ____Meadow vole
____Muskrat ____House mouse ____Norway rat
____Meadow jumping mouse  ____Western jumping mouse ____Common porcupine
____Coyote ____Red fox ____Common gray fox
____Common raccoon ____Ermine (short-tailed weasel) ____Long-tailed weasel
____Least weasel ____Mink ____American badger
____Eastern spotted skunk ____Striped skunk ____Mule deer
____White-tailed deer ____Moose* ____Pronghorn (antelope)
____American bison (private herds)

* The district does not have a resident moose population, but wandering animals are occasionally seen. 

List compiled from "Wild Mammals of South Dakota", a publication of South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks by Higgins, Stukel, Goulet and Backlund, copyright 2000.

Last updated: November 18, 2008