CENTRAL OREGON WILDLIFE CATEGORIES
Please always stay a minimum distance of 25 yards from most wildlife and 100 yards from predators like bears and wolves. This will help ensure the safety of you, your pets and the wild animal! If you find an injured or orphaned animal or have a question, call our Wildlife Hotline at (541) 241-8680.
AMPHIBIANS
learn about the Long-toed Salamander, Great Basin Spadefoot, Western Toad, Pacific tree frog, American bullfrog, Northwestern Salamander, and Oregon Spotted Frog.
PIKAS, RABBITS & HARES
learn about the American Pika, Pygmy Rabbit, Mountain Cottontail, Snowshoe Hare, Black-tailed Jackrabbit and the White-tailed Jackrabbit.
BATS
learn about California Myotis, Western Small-footed Myotis, Little Brown Myotis, Long-eared Myotis, Long-legged Myotis, Hoary Bat, Silver-haired Bat, Canyon Bat, Spotted Bat, Big Brown Bat, Pallid Bat, Townsend’s Big-eared Bat, and the Brazilian Free-tailed Bat.
RATS & MICE
learn about the Western Harvest Mouse, Canyon Mouse, Deer Mouse, Pinyon Mouse, Northern Grasshopper Mouse, Bushy-tailed Woodrat, House Mouse, Western Red-backed Vole, Long-tailed Vole, Montane Vole, Sagebrush Vole, Common Muskrat and the Western Jumping Mouse.
WATERFOWL
We’re still working on building out this page – as you can imagine, there are quite a few raptors, corvids, songbirds and waterfowl that call Central Oregon home! Click here if you found an injured or orphaned bird.
RAPTORS
We’re still working on building out this page – as you can imagine, there are quite a few raptors, corvids, songbirds and waterfowl that call Central Oregon home! Click here if you found an injured or orphaned bird.
SONGBIRDS
We’re still working on building out this page – as you can imagine, there are quite a few raptors, corvids, songbirds and waterfowl that call Central Oregon home! Click here if you found an injured or orphaned bird.
CATS
learn about Central Oregon’s two wild cats, the cougar (mountain lion) and the bobcat.
SNAKES
learn about the Rubber Boa, North American Racer, Night Snake, Striped Whipsnake, Gopher Snake, Western Rattlesnake and the Western Terrestrial (wandering) Garter Snake.
COYOTES, WOLVES & FOXES
learn about the Coyote, Gray wolf, Common Gray Fox, Red Fox, and the Sierra Nevada Red Fox.
SQUIRRELS, CHIPMUNKS & MARMOTS
learn about the Yellow-pine Chipmunk, Least Chipmunk, Allen’s Chipmunk, Yellow-bellied Marmot, California Ground Squirrel, Belding’s Ground Squirrel, Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Western Gray Squirrel, Douglas’ Squirrel and the Northern Flying Squirrel.
HOOFED ANIMALS
learn about the Rocky Mountain Elk and the most frequently seen, Mule Deer.
WEASELS, SKUNKS & BADGERS
learn about the American Marten, Ermine, Long-tailed Weasel, Mink, American Badger, River Otter, Western Spotted Skunk and the Striped Skunk.
INVASIVE SPECIES
Invasive and nonnative wildlife in Central Oregon include, but are not limited to, Virginia Opossum, Eastern Gray Squirrels and Norway rats. Click here to learn more.
LIZARDS & SKINKS
learn about the Pygmy Short-horned Lizard, Western Fence Lizard, Sagebrush Lizard, Western Skink, Side-blotched Lizard, Plateau Striped Whiptail and the Western whiptail.