American Animals Kentucky and Louisiana

Kentucky Wildlife

The US state of Kentucky has a diverse landscape with mountains, lakes, rivers, wetlands, forests, and caves, It is home to a large variety of mammals, insects, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

Among the better-known wild animals in Kentucky are the little brown bat, black bear, sandhill crane, Kentucky warbler, copperhead snake, eastern box turtle, and largemouth bass.

Even though horses are not considered wild animals they are looked upon with favor and treasured in the state of Kentucky. The state is home to many thoroughbred farms and breeding programs. The horse became the official mammal of the state in 1966 and every year people from all over come with bated breath to watch the incredibly beautiful racehorses run and win the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May annually.

Official State Bird

Northern Cardinal

Visiting the Mammoth Caves you can spot unique wildlife like little brown bats, cave salamanders, and Kentucky cave shrimp. There are also strange eyeless fish dwelling in the caves. It is possible to catch a look at the endangered Indiana brown bat.

In the forests, you can find white-tail deer, rabbits, American toads, coyotes, opossums, squirrels, skunks, and foxes.

Other creatures making their home in the forest are rodents including mice, pine voles, and eastern woodrats.

Wild animals along the rivers of Kentucky include fish like flathead catfish, spotted bass, white bass, walleye, and bluegills among others. The state is popular for both amateur and seasoned fishermen.

In the wetlands the creatures making their homes there are common snapping turtles, alligator gar, swamp darters, masked shrews, Kirtland’s snake, and the heron.

In the mountains like the Appalachian Mountains, you can find elk, black bears, whitetail deer, beaver, weasels, and chipmunks.

Endangered animals

Cumberland Darter

Whooping crane

Backside Dace

Rusty Patched Bumble Bee

Gray Bats

Animals Living In Louisiana

The US state of Louisiana offers great places for animals to make their homes. There are swamplands, bayous, creeks, woodlands, coastal marshes, beaches, and barrier islands. Among the varied habitats in the Creole State are tidal marshes, bayous, swamps, woodlands, forests, and prairies.

Official State Mammal

Louisiana black bear

Official State Bird

Brown pelican

Official State Reptile

American alligator

Official State Amphibian

American green tree frog

Among the most common animals in the state are otters, deer, mink, muskrat, raccoons, opossums, rabbits, squirrels, nutria, turtles, alligators, woodcocks, skunks, foxes, beavers, ringtails, armadillos, coyotes, and bobcats.

Louisiana has two species of squirrels the gray and fox squirrel.

There are two species of rabbits the Eastern cottontail and the swamp rabbit.

The Louisiana black bears are found in larger numbers in the denser woodlands along the Tensas, Red, Black, and Atchafalaya Rivers.

Reptiles

Besides the American alligator, there are many different snake species among them the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, Texas coral snake, eastern yellowbelly racer, mud snake, western pigmy rattlesnake, northern scarlet snake, rainbow snake, buttermilk racer, tan racer, northern cottonmouth, red corn snake, pit vipers and kingsnake.

Here you can find America's largest freshwater turtle the alligator snapping turtle which shares the terrain with its cousin the common snapping turtle.

In the wetlands, you can see the green American chameleon and the lizard-like tiger salamander.

Other reptiles include the gopher tortoise, razor-backed musk turtle, broad-headed skink, coal skink, and the slender glass lizard.

Birds

Besides the state bird, the brown pelican the most common is the great white egret making its home in the wetlands and coastal areas where it can have a diet of fish, amphibians, and small mammals.

The American bald eagle nests in the southeastern coastal parishes and on large lakes in the northern and central parishes.

There are some of America's tallest birds like the great blue heron and great egret.

Raptors such as the ospreys, American black vultures. and barred owls in the marshes of southern Louisiana. You can also find migratory waterfowl and songbirds making stopovers to spend winters in the wetlands.

Amphibians

Toads and frogs living here include Hurter's spadefoot toad and southern toad, as well as frogs such as pig frog, striped chorus frog, and bronze frog. American bullfrogs are the largest frogs native to Louisiana.

Fish

There are sharks such as lemon sharks, tiger sharks, bull sharks, and blacktip sharks. These are usually observed throughout the Atchafalaya Basin, 900 miles up the Mississippi River, and in inland bayous and wetlands, The alligator gar and the frecklebelly madtom are native to Pearl River in southeastern Louisianna.

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