# Fauna of Illinois

The fauna of Illinois include a wide variety of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and insects (not listed).
* The state bird is the Northern 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.
* The state snake is the eastern milk snake.

## 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

* 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
* Eastern 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

## Sources

* 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