Minnesota Species

Black bullhead

Ameiurus melas

Black barbels

Yellow bullhead

Ameiurus natalis

White/pale yellow barbels on chin

Walleye

Sander vitreus

White band on caudal fin

Sharp teeth

Yellow perch

Perca flavescens

Black bands on body

Tall body

No teeth

Bluegill

Lepomis macrochirus

Vertical banding

Black dots on dorsal fin

Warmouth

Lepomis galosus

Checkered pattern on body and spines

Large mouth

Common five-lined skink

Plestiodon fasciatus

White or light blue lines

Northern prairie skink

Plestiodon septentrionalis

Three thick lines in the middle, thin lines on the side (total of 7 lines)

Small body

Freshwater drum

Aplodinotus grunniens

Deep, silver body

Humped back

Long dorsal fin

Rounded tail

Bowfin

Amia calva

Long body

Elongated dorsal fin

Smallmouth bass

Micropterus dolomieu

Slender, torpedo-shaped body

Brown-green coloration with vertical bars

Shallow notch between the dorsal fins

Snapping turtle

Chelydra serpentina

White-tailed deer

Odocoileus virginianus

Eastern grey squirrel

Sciurus carolinensis

Fox squirrel

Sciurus niger

Orange-tan or reddish-brown fur with a rusty stomach

Red squirrel

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Smaller than fox squirrel

White stomach

White eye rings and ear tufts

Southern flying squirrel

Glaucomys volans

Flattened tail

Large eyes

Gray-brown fur

Eastern chipmunk

Tamias striatus

Five dark brown or black stripes

White stripes around the eyes

Reddish-brown fur

Thirteen-lined ground squirrel

Ictidomys tridecemlineatus

13 lines on back with dots

Striped skunk

Mephitis mephitis

Eastern cottontail

Sylvilagus floridanus

Racoon

Procyon Lotor

Mourning dove

American robin

American crow

European starling

Common grackle

Northern cardinal

Dark-eyed junko

Common nighthawk

Barred owl

Red-winged blackbird

Great blue heron

Mallard duck

Wood duck

Common merganser

Pied-billed grebe

Belted kingfisher

Common loon

Killdeer

Common yellowthroat

Brown-headed cowbird

Black-capped chickadee

American goldfinch

Downy woodpecker

Pileated woodpecker

Spring peeper

Pseudacris crucifer

American toad

Bufo Americanist

Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Gray tree frog

Dryophytes versicolor