American Animals Mississippi and Missouri

Wildlife Living in Mississippi

The US state of Mississippi has many different landscapes among them wetlands, forests, barrier islands, prairies, and coastal dunes. Many different types of wildlife make their home here including more than 84 species of reptiles and 426 plus species of birds as well as 120 species of fish living in the Mississippi River.

State Bird

Northern Mockingbird

State Mammal

White-tailed Deer

State Water Mammal

Bottlenose Dolphin

Wetlands

In the wetlands of Mississippi, you can find unique wild animals. Among the reptiles are the Mississippi green water snake, the Mississippi mud turtle, the American alligator, and the eastern mud turtle.

Birds making their home in the wetlands are the wood stork and reddish egret as well as the swallow-tailed kite.

Rodents are the marsh rice rat and nutria.

You can find red foxes, wild hogs, and swamp rabbits.

Forests

The forests are home to mammals like the southern flying squirrel, white-tailed deer, raccoons, beavers, and skunks.

Among birds are the northern mockingbird, the red-bellied woodpecker, chipping sparrow, indigo bunting, and the white-breasted nuthatch.

The forests are also home to the big brown bat, the Brazilian free-tailed bat, the gray bat, and the Seminole bat.

Prairies

In the prairies there are fewer animals but those making their home are wild turkeys, white-tailed deer, rabbits, and prairie warblers

Endangered Animals of Mississippi

Ivory-billed woodpecker

Bachman’s warbler

Green turtle

Kemp’s Ridley, a sea turtle

Bayou darter, a tiny fish.

The Wildlife of Missouri

The US state of Missouri has a humid continental climate in the north and a humid subtropical climate in the rest of the state. The wild animals in this state make their home in the many bodies of water, forests, and wilderness areas among them the famous Mark Twain National Forest.

State Mammal

Missouri Mule

State Bird

Eastern Bluebird

State Insect

Western Honeybee

State Amphibian

American Bullfrog

Mammals

Among the rodents making their home in Missouri are several species of mice and rats, among them the golden mouse and the fulvous harvest mouse.

Other rodents include voles and woodrats, the southern bog lemming, the eastern gray squirrel, flying squirrels, the eastern chipmunk, the groundhog, and the pocket gopher.

Among the larger rodents in the state are beavers and the nutria.

Shrews that resemble mice aren't rodents but belong to the Soeicidae family, The ones living in Missouri are the northern and southern short-tailed shrew, Elliot’s short-tailed shrew, and the common shrew. Their somewhat distant relative, the eastern mole can also be found here.

The American bison can be found in Prairie State Park.

Other large mammals include the white-tailed deer and elk, including the Rocky Mountain elk.

The top canine predator is the coyote. There are also gray and red foxes. Another predator in the state is the bobcat. The largest of the predators is the black bear.

Other mammals in Missouri are the opossum, the American mink, types of weasels, the North American river otter, and the striped and eastern spotted skunk.

There are many species of bats among them the Mexican free-tailed bat one of the most common chiropterans. You can also find rabbits here and the nine-banded armadillo.

Birds

Birds make their home in the freshwater lakes, ponds, streams, and rivers of Missouri. Among them are swans, ducks, geese, and wading birds such as herons and egrets.

You can also find gulls and the American and brown pelicans here as well as cormorants, and the roseate spoonbill.

The common loon with its haunting call is here and even birds that are normally at sea like the northern storm petrel and frigatebirds visit in landlocked Missouri.

Besides the eastern bluebird, other songbirds found in the state include vireos, wood peewees, flycatchers, kingbirds, bluejays, crows, chickadees, larks, swallows, nuthatches, wrens, thrashers and mockingbirds.

You can also find finches, buntings, and sparrows here as well as warblers and tanagers. There are many woodpeckers among them the rarest woodpecker, the ivory-billed woodpecker.

Reptiles and Amphibians

Reptiles that make their home in Missouri include the Texas horned lizard, several species of skink, the glass lizard, and many species of snakes and turtles, including the huge alligator snapping turtle.

Most of the snakes in the state are nonvenomous but you should look out for the venomous cottonmouth, the copperhead, and at least three species of rattlesnakes.

Amphibians include the common mudpuppy and other species of salamander including the grotto salamander and the central newt.

Besides the American bullfrog also living here at the common toad, the eastern narrow-mouthed toad, the striped chorus frog, and the crawfish frog is named because it lives in crawfish burrows most of the time.

Other Arthropods

The spiders found in Missouri are American house spiders, crab spiders, orb web weavers, wolf spiders, and jumping spiders. There are also the brown recluse and black widow spiders. The Missouri tarantula is the only one found here and its venom is not life-threatening.

Other arthropods in the state are centipedes, millipedes, crayfish, isopods, and amphipods.

Fish

There are many fish in Missouri like the lake sturgeon found at the bottom of lakes or wide rivers. A fish that is native to the state is the bowfin. Other fish include suckers, quillbacks, buffalos, redhorses, sunfish, darters and bluegill, different species of bass, walleye, sauger and crappie.

Missouri has chubs and minnows, pikes, pickerel, muskellunge, and different species of catfish, including bullheads and madtoms. There are also gars, including the alligator gar and the longnose gar. Rainbow and brown trout can be found in lakes, rivers, and streams, and the rainbow trout can be found beneath dams.

Endangered Animals In Missouri

Grotto sculpin

Pink mucket

Ozark hellbender

Pallid sturgeon

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