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.

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

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

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