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The fauna of Illinois include a wide variety of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and insects (not listed).
- The state bird is the Northern cardinal.
- The state insect is the monarch butterfly.
- The state animal is the white-tailed deer.
- The state fish is the bluegill.
- The state fossil is the tully monster.
- The state amphibian is the eastern tiger salamander.
- The state reptile is the painted turtle.
Video Fauna of Illinois
List of native species
Mammals
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- American badger
- American mink
- American pygmy shrew
- Big brown bat
- Bobcat
- Cinereus shrew
- Cotton mouse
- Coyote
- Cougar
- American black bear
- Eastern cottontail
- Eastern mole
- Eastern pipistrelle
- Eastern red bat
- Eastern chipmunk
- Eastern gray squirrel
- Evening bat
- Eastern woodrat
- Franklin's ground squirrel
- Golden mouse
- Gray bat
- Gray fox
- Groundhog
- Hoary bat
- House mouse
- Indiana bat
- Least weasel
- Little brown bat
- Long-tailed weasel
- Marsh rice rat
- Meadow vole
- Meadow jumping mouse
- Muskrat
- Nine-banded armadillo
- North American beaver
- North American least shrew
- North American river otter
- Northern short-tailed shrew
- Norway rat
- Deer mouse
- [[Plains pocket gopher
- Prairie vole
- Raccoon
- Rafinesque's big-eared bat
- Red fox
- Red squirrel
- Silver-haired bat
- Southeastern shrew
- Southeastern myotis
- Southern bog lemming
- Southern short-tailed shrew
- Southern flying squirrel
- Striped skunk
- Swamp rabbit
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
- Virginia opossum
- Western harvest mouse
- White-footed mouse
- White-tailed deer
- American Bison
- Woodland vole}}
Birds
For a complete list, see list of birds of Illinois.
Amphibians
Frogs and toads
Salamanders
Reptiles
Turtles
Lizards
Snakes
Fish
Tiger Blue What
Maps Fauna of Illinois
Sources
- http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/animals_plants/birds/ilbirds.html
- http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/cbd/collections/mammal/ilmammals.html
- http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/animals_plants/herps/ilspecies.html
- http://www.ifishillinois.org/species/species.html
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