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Wildlife at Dunwoody Nature Center
Below you'll find a list of the wildlife sighted at Dunwoody Park by visitors and employees
Join us in identifying the wild creatures around us. Let us know at the office if you see an animal not on the list — we will add it to our "official" roster of animals after a few sightings. There are over 40 different animals on our list already. Keep looking, you never know what you might see!
The Barred Owl in the photo at left was photographed at Dunwoody Park. Their nocturnal call of "who cooks for youuuuuu, who cooks for you aaaaaaaall" rings out over the park in the evening.
This Red-Tailed Hawk was so focused on his prey that he ignored our program manager as she walked within ten feet to get this shot. That's one cool predator!
Donna Burt and Andy Burt snapped this pix of an Alligator Snapping Turtle now residing in the wetlands around our treehouse. (If you see him, please don't lob things to get his attention. He actually doesn't like plastic bottles and baseballs!)
Junior photographer Ryan Hicks spied a Cooper's Hawk soaring above and captured this regal pose when it alit in a nearby tree.
When our Master Gardener volunteers cleared the kitchen garden, they discovered two baby bunnies hiding within the early Spring greenery. We had to take some pictures, but left them alone - Mama Bunny was likely very close by and ready to shepherd her babies to another location!
If you take a photo of some of our wildlife, share it with us!
» MAMMALS
» BIRDS
Found a fledgling bird, baby squirrel, or any other wildlife? DNC is not licensed to rehabilitate wildlife, so contact the Chattahoochee Nature Center. Information can be found at: http://www.chattnaturecenter.com/sections.php
Mammals
COMMON NAME |
SCIENTIFIC NAME |
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Eastern Gray Squirrel |
Sciurus carolinensis |
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Southern Flying Squirrel |
Glaucomys volans |
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Eastern Chipmunk |
Tamias striatus |
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Vole species |
Microtus spp. |
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Mouse species |
Peromyscus spp. |
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Muskrat |
Ondatra zibethica |
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Eastern cottontail |
Sylvilagus floridanus |
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Swamp rabbit |
Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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Raccoon |
Procyon lotor |
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Opossum |
Didelphis virginianus |
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Red fox |
Vulpes vulpes |
Coyote |
Canis latrans |
White-tailed deer |
Odocoileus virginianus |
Southern short-tailed shrew |
Blarina carolinensis |
Roof rat |
Rattus rattus |
Birds
COMMON NAME |
SCIENTIFIC NAME |
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Carolina chickadee |
Parus carolinensis |
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Blue jay |
Cyanocitta cristata |
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Tufted titmouse |
Parus bicolor |
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Northern cardinal |
Cardinalis cardinalis |
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American crow |
Corvus brachyrhynchos |
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Mourning dove |
Zenaida macroura |
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House sparrow |
Passer domesticus |
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Ruby-throated hummingbird |
Archilochus colubris |
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Brown thrasher |
Toxostoma rufum |
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Wood thrush |
Hylocichla mustelina |
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Redheaded woodpecker |
Melanerpes erythrocephalus |
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Pileated woodpecker |
Dryocopus pileatus |
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Red-bellied woodpecker |
Melanerpes carolinus |
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Downy woodpecker |
Picoides pubescens |
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Northern flicker |
Colaptes auratus |
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European starling |
Sturnus vulgaris |
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Northern mockingbird |
Mimus polyglottos |
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Brown-headed nuthatch |
Sitta pusilla |
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Rufous-sided towhee |
Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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Sharp-shinned hawk |
Accipiter striatus |
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Red-tailed hawk |
Buteo jamaicensis |
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Eastern screech owl |
Otus asio |
Eastern bluebird |
Sialia sialis |
White-throated sparrow |
Zonotrichia albicollis |
Eastern phoebe |
Sayornis phoebe |
Pine warbler |
Dendroica coronata |
White-breasted nuthatch |
Sitta carolinensis |
Red-shouldered hawk |
Buteo lineatus |
Slate-sided junco |
Cassiar junco |
American goldfinch |
Carduelis tristis |
Amphibians, Reptiles & Fish
COMMON NAME |
SCIENTIFIC NAME |
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Southern leopard frog |
Rana sphenocephala |
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Bullfrog |
Rana catesbeiana |
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Southern copperhead |
Agkistrodon contortrix |
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Rough green snake |
Opheodrys aestivus |
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Common garter snake |
Thamnophis sirtalis |
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Eastern box turtle |
Terrapene carolina |
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Snapping turtle |
Chelydra serpentina |
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Mosquitofish |
Gambusia affinis |
Spring peeper |
Hyla crucifer |
Gray tree frog |
Hyla versicolor |
Green tree frog |
Hyla cinerea |
Crawfish |
Cambaridae camburus |
Midland watersnake |
Nerodia sipedon pleuralis |
Mole salamander |
Ambystoma talpoideum |
DeKay's snake |
Storeria dekayi |
Remember to keep looking and let us know what you see!
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