Wildlife List

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Wildlife of Island Beach State Park and Surrounding Area

The following list is not intended to be complete. We tried to include as many species as possible and we also included some "rare" visitors to the park. If you have any suggestions please email us wildlife@friendsofislandbeach.com

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Birds

American Kestrel

American Oystercatcher

American Black Duck

American Crow

American Redstart

American Robin

American Tree Sparrow

Barn Swallow

Belted Kingfisher

Black Scoter

Black Skimmer

Black-and-white Warbler

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler

Blue Grosbeak

Blue-winged Teal

Blue-winged Warbler

Boat-tailed Grackle

Bohemian Waxwing

Brown Pelican

Brown Thrasher

Brown-headed Cowbird

Canada Warbler

Cape May Warbler

Carolina Chickadee

Cedar Waxwing

Chipping Sparrow

Common Grackle

Common Loon

Common Merganser

Common Tern

Common Yellowthroat

Cooper's Hawk

Dark-eyed Junco

Double-crested Cormorant

Downy Woodpecker

Eastern Towhee

European Starling

Field Sparrow

Gray Catbird

Great Black-backed Gull

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Greater Shearwater

Harlequin Duck

Herring Gull

House Finch

House Sparrow

Indigo Bunting

Kentucky Warbler

Kentucky Warbler

Least Sandpiper

Long-tailed Duck

Magnolia Warbler

Mourning Dove

Nashville Warbler

Northern Cardinal

Northern Flicker

Northern Harrier

Northern Mockingbird

Northern Pintail

Peregrine Falcon

Piping Plover

Purple Martin

Red-breasted Merganser

Red-tailed Hawk

Red-winged Blackbird

Ruddy Turnstone

Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow

Semipalmated Plover

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Snowy Egret

Song Sparrow

Tricolored Heron

Yellow Warbler

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

Fish and Marine Life

Atlantic Croaker

Atlantic Horseshoe Crab

Atlantic Long-finned Squid

Atlantic Mole Crab

Atlantic Purple Sea Urchin

Atlantic Rock Crab

Atlantic Mackerel

Atlantic Menhaden

Atlantic Needlefish

Atlantic Silverside

American Eel

Black Sea Bass

Blue Handed Hermit Crab

Common Mantis Shrimp

Common Sea Star

Common Spider Crab

Flat-clawed Hermit Crab

Leidy's Comb Jelly

Lion's Mane

Long-clawed Hermit Crab

Northern Lobster

Northern Pipefish

Northern Searobin

Northern Sea Star

Sand Fiddler

Sand Shrimp

Striped Bass

Summer Flounder

Threespine Stickleback

Winter Flounder

Reptiles & Amphibians	Mammals	Insects
Common Musk Turtle Diamondback Terrapin Eastern Box Turtle Eastern Hognose Snake Eastern Spadefoot Toad Fowler's Toad Leatherback Loggerhead Northern Leopard Frog Painted Turtle Racer Snapping Turtle Spotted Turtle	Bottle-nosed Dolphin Common Muskrat Common Raccoon Eastern Cottontail Eastern Gray Squirrel House Mouse Little Brown Bat Long-tailed Weasel Masked Shrew Meadow Jumping Mouse Meadow Vole Mink Northern River Otter Norway Rat Red Fox Short-tailed Weasel Virginia Opossum White-footed Mouse	American Bumblebee American Horse Fly Black Flies Black-legged Tick (Deer Tick) Chiggers Common Green Darner Crane Flies Deer Flies Eastern Carpenter Bee Eastern Subterranean Termite Eastern Yellow Jacket Field Cricket Golden Paper Wasp Honey Bee House Fly House Mosquito Paper Wasps Saltmarsh Mosquito Wood Tick

Butterflies

American Copper

American Lady

Banded Hairstreak

Black Swallowtail

Cabbage White

Clouded Sulphur

Common Buckeye

Common Ringlet

Common Wood-Nymph

Dun Skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

European Skipper

Gray Hairstreak

Great Spangled Fritillary

Juvenal's Duskywing

Little Wood-Satyr

Mourning Cloak

Orange Sulphur

Pearl Crescent

Peck’s Skipper

Question Mark

Red Admiral

Spicebush Swallowtail

Spring Azure

Wild Indigo Duskywing

More to follow soon!

Any additions? Please email wildlife@friendsofislandbeach.com

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