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Arkansas ResourcesWhether you enjoy bird watching, hunting, fishing, or wildlife photography, Arkansas offers some exceptional opportunities. Arkansas is home to numerous wildlife species that thrive in our pine and hardwood forests, rivers and streams, lakes and reservoirs, wetlands, and delta river bottoms. Many Arkansans enjoy the outdoors. For birdwatchers, many Bald Eagles winter in Arkansas and provide numerous viewing opportunities. During migration, neotropical songbirds can be seen in many parks, wildlife management areas, and refuges, particularly the White and Cache River National Wildlife Refuges. A resident Rocky Mountain Elk population along the Buffalo River is also a popular stop. Hunting and fishing rank high as recreational pastimes. Game animals include bear, beaver, coyote, crow, white-tailed deer, elk, quail, rabbit, raccoons, squirrels, and wild turkey. Migratory game birds are ducks, geese, Coot, Mergansers, Teals, Mourning Dove, Virginia and Sora Rails, Common Snipe, Common Moorhen, Purple Gallinule, and American Woodcock. Information about hunting seasons and fishing regulations can be found at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission website. Our native mammals include the Opossum, five species of shrews (Southeastern Shrew, Southern Short-tailed Shrew, Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew, Least Shrew, Desert Shrew), Eastern Mole, sixteen species of bats (Little Brown Bat, Southeastern Bat, Gray Bat, Keen's Bat, Indiana Bat, Small-footed Bat, Silver-haired Bat, Eastern Pipistrelle, Big Brown Bat, Red Bat, Seminole Bat, Hoary Bat, Evening Bat, Townsend's Big-eared Bat, Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat, Brazilian Free-tailed Bat), Nine-banded Armadillo, Eastern Cottontail, Swamp Rabbit, Black-tailed Jackrabbit, Eastern Chipmunk, Woodchuck, Gray Squirrel, Fox Squirrel, Southern Flying Squirrel, Baird's Pocket Gopher, Beaver, Marsh Rice Rat, ten mice species (Plains Harvest Mouse, Eastern Harvest Mouse, Western Harvest Mouse, Fulvous Harvest Mouse, Deer Mouse, White-footed Mouse, Cotton Mouse, Texas Mouse, Golden Mouse, House Mouse), Hispid Cotton Rat, Eastern Woodrat, Prairie Vole, Woodland Vole, Muskrat, Southern Bog Lemming, Coyote, Red fox, Gray Fox, Black Bear, Ringtail, Raccoon, Long-tailed Weasel, Mink, Badger, Eastern Spotted Skunk, Striped Skunk, River Otter, Bobcat, and White-tailed Deer. Introduced mammals include the Black Rat, Norway Rat, House Mouse, Nutria, Feral Dogs, Cats, and Pigs, and Wapiti (Elk). Extinct Arkansas mammals which occur only in captivity are the Red Wolf and Bison (Buffalo). Listings and information about native, introduced, and migratory birds, as well as endangered species, can be obtained from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. If you would like to see maps for other Arkansas wildlife, check out the Gap Analysis Site. |
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