What sort of animal life can be found within your city/town?

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Influenced by the Australia thread :)

There aren't many animals next to the humans in this urban center (not counting the zoo, obviously), apart from the following:

-Crows (actually Ravens, i think only Ravens live here from that related species, which is why we only have the term Corax for both ravens and crows)
-Pidgeons
-Sparrows
-Seagulls (it is a main port)
-other small birds, but they are a lot rarer apart when in cages

-black ants
-bees
-pest insects (horrible)
-snails
-caterpillars and butterflies, also moths
-beetles (black)
-small, web-making spiders

-(obvious) cats and dogs, many stray
-i once saw a mouse running in the park...

-some small kinds of fish

I think that the most obvious apart from the cats/dogs are the ravens and the pidgeons or sparrows. I like the ravens, but the other birds are annoying, apart from the seagulls which fly above the long coastal park/greenarea.
 
We're a city often called the "bush capital" because we're surrounded by bushland (most of the Australian Capital Territory is actually national park). Here's a density map, white areas have no-one living in them:

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Aside from a lake, the rest of that empty space is mostly bushland. So that means most people are within a km or two of some area of nature or other. This tends to mean there's a bit of wildlife around. I'm not listing stuff which lives in the Namadgi National Park within the ACT rather than in and around Canberra.

Kangaroos are a driving threat at dusk on the roads that go between the built-up areas, and they're numerous enough that the government has a culling program. Apparently there's also some feral deer as well but I've neer seen any.

The common birds include magpies (which attack people during spring), rosellas (colourful parrots), galahs (pink and white cockatoos), gang gang cockatoos (grey and pink) and sulphur crested cockatoos. I've seen a few seagulls around too, confusingly.

I have no idea what lives in Lake Burley Griffin but I bet it's introduced species rather than a native ecosystem. Burley Griffin is a man-made lake, so I dunno what sort of efforts are made to give it a healthy ecosystem.

Bugs include metric arseloads of bogong moths, but due to the altitude and dry air, mosquitos and cockroaches and flies aren't as frequent as in Sydney.

In terms of stuff foreigners are afraid of, in the suburbs in gardens you might find brown snakes or the occasional red bellied black snake. I assume we have redback spiders about the place too. I've never heard of a snake or spider fatality in the ACT and at the end of the day, bees kill more people in Australia than any other fauna.
 
Basically the same as the OP here, along with the odd raccoon knocking over some trash bins or something, and Chickadees in the parks. I nearly ran a snake down on a bike in the park, though.

Almost forgot, you can see geese migrate sometimes in the late Fall/Early Winter time. Not as common as it used to be, though.
 
squirrel
rabbit
fox
skunk
racoon
possum
great blue heron
chupacabra
juncos should be coming back any day now for the winter
Tons of other birds, too many to list
Not in the town itself, but can always hear coyotes at night

Eh, that's all I can think of at the moment. I am sure I am missing a lot. Also, not bothering listing the multitudes of insects or snakes.

EDIT: Cripes. Read Chukchi's post... how in the blazes could I have forgotten squirrels and rabbits? Adding to list.
 
Huge fruit bats, snakes of various sorts including a few cobras, beautiful white birds like cranes which fly by out over the ocean, and the usual run of the mill stuff, and that's all on land. Lots of stuff in the ocean.
 
The most common birds here are the normal pigeon (called the rock dove) and the seagull. There are also wood pigeons, which are bigger than the normal pigeon.

The only corvids I think live around here are jackdaws, magpies and crows. I only ever seen two ravens, and that was in the Pembrokeshire National Park.

Other birds I think are starlings, house martins, blackbirds, sparrows, thrushes, robins, and probably many more small birds. I think there might also be some kind of owl that lives here. I think peregrine falcons might be found around the nearby countryside.

Mammals include the American grey squirrel (the second worst invasive species in Britain), hedgehogs (my dog managed to catch two), bats that live in the old stone mines, some kind of deer and badgers live in the nearby woods, and there are small mammals like mice that are found everywhere. I think I did see a fox once.

The only reptile I know about that's found locally is the slow worm, which is a legless lizard. Frogs live here, and my dog like to catch and eat them.

I think for insects are the normal ones like ants, wasps, bees, flies and beetles. The largest spider is the house spider, which is harmless.
 
Small town of 800 or so, we have:
Fox
Deer
Lynx (although extremely rarely)
Wolverine
Some stray cats
Many different species of rodents, mouse etc. We had a lemming year this year so every time I went for a 30 minute walk in the evening this fall I saw 40-50 of them.

In addition, about a billion different species of insects and probably a couple of hundred different species of birds.
 
very small town:

Mammals
- Roe Deer
- red fox
- beech marten
- wild boars
- badgers
- hedgehogs
- rabbits
- mice, bats and other small mammals

Birds
- Red Kite
- Grey Heron
- sparrows (duh)
- blackbirds
- crows
- magpies
- swallows
- ducks
- several types of tits and finches
- some more, less common ones

not going into insects :)
 
I have some of these little fellows in a river which flows through my home city (over 30,000 inhabitants) - beat this!: :)

I never saw one but I've seen the results of their work many times (and I've read about them in a local newspaper):

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We also have some of these, which can be found in either of two parks:

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And perhaps around one thousand (I once counted 700 during a Winter walk then got bored and stopped counting) of these:

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As well as some of these (we have an artificial lake thanks to a river dam):

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And these fellas but only in surrounding villages, rather than in the city itself:

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In or near a forest which is adjacent to the city I could see also them:

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Some of these birds in local parks and forests too, but rather not too many:

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I'm not going into details about small mammals, small birds, fish and insects.
 
bhsup said:
squirrel
rabbit
fox
skunk
racoon
possum
great blue heron
chupacabra
juncos should be coming back any day now for the winter
Tons of other birds, too many to list
Not in the town itself, but can always hear coyotes at night

Eh, that's all I can think of at the moment. I am sure I am missing a lot. Also, not bothering listing the multitudes of insects or snakes.

EDIT: Cripes. Read Chukchi's post... how in the blazes could I have forgotten squirrels and rabbits? Adding to list.
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This list works for me plus:

muskrat
lizards
snakes
cats
cats
feral nasty mangy cats
chipmunks
deer
bobcats
bats

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Added bats cause taillesskangaru reminded me
 
Place I've been living for a year now, small town of a few thousand, I'm right on the edge of town. Animals I've seen:

White tailed deer
Squirrels
Rabbits
Chipmunk
Skunk
Woodchuck
Frog
Field mouse
Dogs and cats (lost/strays), I'm assuming we aren't counting all the possible animals people may have as pets and farm animals.

Other animals I know are around, but I have not seen from my house:
Coyote
Fox
Possum
Racoon
Rare reports of bears and bobcats. In a different (much larger) city 30 miles away police shot a bear that was in a park.

Birds:
Too numerous, and I don't really pay much attention to the different kinds of smaller ones, but here is what I can think of.
Eagle
Turkey vulture
Crows
Robin
Sparrows
Cardinal (not common)

Bugs: again, too numerous. The annoying ones are:
Lady bugs
Box elder bugs
Ants, spiders, flies, bees (they are everywhere aren't they?)
 
Oh man ladybugs invaded my house this fall, there were so damn many of them. But I like them, they are cute and eat other bugs so I didn't kill them all.
 
A big fox ran across the road in front of me last week.

Other than that a lot of the usual stuff (for a town on the north Atlantic coast)

Birds:
Edit: Forgot about Blackbirds - I like them and their song
Ducks
Swans
Herons
Crows
Pigeons
Gulls
Terns
and lots of smaller ones I don't recognise.

Mammals:
Cats and dogs
Bats
Seals
The odd Dolphin
Fox
Rats
People
Some Hares and rabbits

Fish:
I'm not very familiar with but I know we get Salmon running through the river at different times and herring come in shore too.
I saw a seal bobbing around while out for a walk a couple of weeks ago - it was after the herring too - I tried to take a photo but it was too quick.

Not too many obvious or big spiders or insects thankfully.
 
Mammals:
Squirrels
Rabbits
Rats
Mice (though I haven't come across too many of these)
Shrews and voles (haven't come across too many of these either)
Foxes
Badgers
Bats

Reptiles:
Slow worms
Adders (only on the outskirts though)

Birds:
Pigeons
Seagulls
Ducks, Swans, Coots
Sparrows, Robbins, Blackbirds, Magpies, Crows, etc.
Kestrels, Buzzards, among other birds of prey
Owls

Sealife:
Everything from trout to mackerel to pikes to eels
Basking Sharks, Blue Sharks, catfish, dogfish
The occasional dolphin
Plenty of crabs, the occasional starfish, there used to be small numbers of jellyfish in the summer.
These bastards
 
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