Fauna of Illinois facts for kids

The fauna of Illinois include a wide variety of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and insects (not listed).

• The state bird is the cardinal.
• The state insect is the monarch butterfly.
• The state animal is the white-tailed deer.
• The state fish is the bluegill.
• The state fossil is the tully monster.
• The state amphibian is the eastern tiger salamander.
• The state reptile is the painted turtle.

List of native species

Mammals

• American badger
• American mink
• American pygmy shrew
• Big brown bat
• Bobcat
• Cinereus shrew
• Cotton mouse
• Coyote
• Cougar
• American black bear
• Eastern cottontail
• Eastern mole
• Eastern pipistrelle
• Eastern red bat
• Eastern chipmunk
• Eastern gray squirrel
• Evening bat
• Eastern woodrat
• Franklin's ground squirrel
• Golden mouse
• Gray bat
• Gray fox
• Groundhog
• Hoary bat
• House mouse
• Indiana bat
• Least weasel
• Little brown bat
• Long-tailed weasel
• Marsh rice rat
• Meadow vole
• Meadow jumping mouse
• Muskrat
• Nine-banded armadillo
• North American beaver
• North American least shrew
• North American river otter
• Northern short-tailed shrew
• Norway rat
• Deer mouse
• Plains pocket gopher
• Prairie vole
• Raccoon
• Rafinesque's big-eared bat
• Red fox
• Red squirrel
• Silver-haired bat
• Southeastern shrew
• Southeastern myotis
• Southern bog lemming
• Southern short-tailed shrew
• Southern flying squirrel
• Striped skunk
• Swamp rabbit
• Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
• Virginia opossum
• Western harvest mouse
• White-footed mouse
• White-tailed deer
• American Bison
• Woodland vole

Birds

For a complete list, see list of birds of Illinois.

• Fulvous whistling duck
• Black-bellied whistling-duck
• Greater white-fronted goose
• Snow goose
• Ross's goose
• Cackling goose
• Canada goose
• Mute swan
• Trumpeter swan
• Tundra swan
• Wood duck
• Gadwall
• Eurasian wigeon
• American wigeon
• American black duck
• Mallard
• Mottled duck
• Blue-winged teal
• Cinnamon teal
• Northern shoveler
• White-cheeked pintail
• Northern pintail
• Garganey
• Green-winged teal
• Canvasback
• Redhead
• Ring-necked duck
• Tufted duck
• Greater scaup
• Lesser scaup
• King eider
• Common eider
• Harlequin duck
• Surf scoter
• White-winged scoter
• Black scoter
• Long-tailed duck
• Bufflehead
• Common goldeneye
• Barrow's goldeneye
• Hooded merganser
• Common merganser
• Red-breasted merganser
• Ruddy duck
• Gray partridge
• Ring-necked pheasant
• Greater prairie chicken
• Northern bobwhite
• Red-throated loon
• Black-throated loon
• Pacific loon
• Common loon
• Yellow-billed loon
• Pied-billed grebe
• Horned grebe
• Red-necked grebe
• Black-necked grebe
• Western grebe
• Clark's grebe
• Northern gannet
• American white pelican
• Brown pelican
• Double-crested cormorant
• Neotropic cormorant
• Anhinga
• Magnificent frigatebird
• American bittern
• Least bittern
• Great blue heron
• Great egret
• Snowy egret
• Little blue heron
• Tricolored heron
• Reddish egret
• Cattle egret
• Green heron
• Black-crowned night heron
• Yellow-crowned night heron
• American white ibis
• Glossy ibis
• White-faced ibis
• Wood stork
• Black vulture
• Turkey vulture
• Osprey
• Swallow-tailed kite
• White-tailed kite
• Mississippi kite
• Bald eagle
• Hen harrier
• Sharp-shinned hawk
• Cooper's hawk
• Northern goshawk
• Red-shouldered hawk
• Broad-winged hawk
• Swainson's hawk
• Red-tailed hawk
• Ferruginous hawk
• Rough-legged buzzard
• Golden eagle
• American kestrel
• Merlin
• Gyrfalcon
• Prairie falcon
• Yellow rail
• Black rail
• King rail
• Virginia rail
• American purple gallinule
• Common moorhen
• American coot
• Sandhill crane
• Whooping crane
• Black-bellied plover
• American golden plover
• Snowy plover
• Killdeer
• Black-necked stilt
• American avocet
• Greater yellowlegs
• Lesser yellowlegs
• Solitary sandpiper
• Willet
• Spotted sandpiper
• Upland sandpiper
• Eskimo curlew
• Whimbrel
• Long-billed curlew
• Hudsonian godwit
• Marbled godwit
• Ruddy turnstone
• Red knot
• Sanderling
• Semipalmated sandpiper
• Western sandpiper
• Least sandpiper
• White-rumped sandpiper
• Baird's sandpiper
• Pectoral sandpiper
• Sharp-tailed sandpiper
• Purple sandpiper
• Dunlin
• Curlew sandpiper
• Stilt sandpiper
• Buff-breasted sandpiper
• Ruff
• Short-billed dowitcher
• Long-billed dowitcher
• Wilson's snipe
• American woodcock
• Wilson's phalarope
• Red phalarope
• Red-necked phalarope
• Long-tailed jaeger
• Parasitic jaeger
• Pomarine jaeger
• Laughing gull
• Franklin's gull
• Little gull
• Black-headed gull
• Bonaparte's gull
• Common gull
• Ring-billed gull
• California gull
• American herring gull
• Thayer's gull
• Iceland gull
• Lesser black-backed gull
• Slaty-backed gull
• Western gull
• Glaucous-winged gull
• Glaucous gull
• Great black-backed gull
• Sabine's gull
• Black-legged kittiwake
• Ross's gull
• Ivory gull
• Gull-billed tern
• Caspian tern
• Royal tern
• Sandwich tern
• Common tern
• Arctic tern
• Forster's tern
• Least tern
• Sooty tern
• Large-billed tern
• Black tern
• Black skimmer
• Rock pigeon
• Band-tailed pigeon
• Eurasian collared dove
• White-winged dove
• Mourning dove
• Inca dove
• Common ground dove
• Monk parakeet
• Black-billed cuckoo
• Groove-billed ani
• Barn owl
• Eastern screech owl
• Great horned owl
• Snowy owl
• Northern hawk owl
• Burrowing owl
• Barred owl
• Long-eared owl
• Short-eared owl
• Boreal owl
• Northern saw-whet owl
• Common nighthawk
• Chuck-will's-widow
• Whip-poor-will
• Chimney swift
• Ruby-throated hummingbird
• Broad-tailed hummingbird
• Rufous hummingbird
• Allen's hummingbird
• Belted kingfisher
• Red-headed woodpecker
• Red-bellied woodpecker
• Williamson's sapsucker
• Yellow-bellied sapsucker
• Downy woodpecker
• Hairy woodpecker
• Red-cockaded woodpecker
• Black-backed woodpecker
• Northern flicker
• Pileated woodpecker
• Olive-sided flycatcher

Amphibians

Frogs and toads

• American toad
• Fowler's toad
• Northern cricket frog
• Bird-voiced treefrog
• Green treefrog
• Cope's grey treefrog
• Eastern grey treefrog
• Spring peeper
• Southeastern chorus frog
• Strecker's chorus frog
• Western chorus frog
• Eastern narrow-mouthed toad
• Eastern spadefoot
• Crawfish frog
• Plains leopard frog
• Bullfrog
• Green frog
• Pickerel frog
• Northern leopard frog
• Southern leopard frog
• Wood frog

Salamanders

• Jefferson salamander
• Blue-spotted salamander
• Spotted salamander
• Marbled salamander
• Silvery salamander
• Mole salamander
• Small-mouthed salamander
• Tiger salamander
• Hellbender
• Spotted dusky salamander
• Southern two-lined salamander
• Long-tailed salamander
• Cave salamander
• Four-toed salamander
• Eastern red-backed salamander
• Northern zigzag salamander
• Northern slimy salamander
• Mudpuppy
• Eastern newt
• Lesser siren

Reptiles

Turtles

• Snapping turtle
• Alligator snapping turtle
• Painted turtle
• Spotted turtle
• Blanding's turtle
• Map turtle
• Ouachita map turtle
• False map turtle
• River cooter
• Eastern box turtle
• Ornate box turtle
• Pond slider
• Yellow mud turtle
• Eastern mud turtle
• Stinkpot (musk turtle)
• Smooth softshell
• Spiny softshell

Lizards

• Slender glass lizard
• Collared lizard (possibly introduced)
• Eastern fence lizard
• Common five-lined skink
• Broad-headed skink
• Ground skink
• Six-lined racerunner

Snakes

• Eastern wormsnake
• Scarletsnake
• Kirtland's snake
• Eastern racer
• Ring-necked snake
• Great Plains ratsnake
• Gray ratsnake
• Western foxsnake
• Mud snake
• Western hog-nosed snake
• Eastern hog-nosed snake
• Prairie kingsnake
• Common kingsnake
• Milk snake
• Coachwhip
• Mississippi green watersnake
• Plain-bellied watersnake
• Southern watersnake
• Diamondback watersnake
• Northern watersnake
• Rough greensnake
• Smooth greensnake
• Gophersnake
• Graham's crayfish snake
• Queen snake
• Dekay's brownsnake
• Red-bellied snake
• Flat-headed snake
• Western ribbonsnake
• Plains gartersnake
• Eastern ribbonsnake
• Common garter snake
• Lined snake
• Eastern smooth earthsnake
• Copperhead (venomous)
• Cottonmouth (venomous)
• Timber rattlesnake (venomous)
• Massasauga rattlesnake (venomous)

Fish

• Bluegill
• Blue catfish
• Bullheads
• Carp
• Channel catfish
• Coho salmon
• Crappie
• Flathead catfish
• Freshwater drum
• Green sunfish
• Buffalo
• Lake sturgeon
• Largemouth bass
• Longnose gar
• Muskellunge
• Northern pike
• Redear sunfish
• Sea lamprey
• Smallmouth bass
• Striped bass
• Sauger
• Walleye
• White bass
• Yellow bass
• Yellow perch

• http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/animals_plants/birds/ilbirds.html
• http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/cbd/collections/mammal/ilmammals.html
• http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/animals_plants/herps/ilspecies.html
• http://www.ifishillinois.org/species/species.html