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This is a list of fauna found in the U.S. state of
Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...
, including those of wider distribution. See also
List of threatened fauna of Michigan The list of threatened fauna of Michigan includes almost 400 endangered, threatened and special concern species that are located in Michigan as a part of the fauna of the United States. Endangered and threatened species in Michigan are protected ...
.


Invertebrates


Cnidaria

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Craspedacusta sowerbyi ''Craspedacusta sowerbii'' or peach blossom jellyfish is a species of freshwater hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa cnidarian. Hydromedusan jellyfish differ from scyphozoan jellyfish because they have a muscular, shelf-like structure called a ...
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Arthropods


Arachnids

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European garden spider The spider species ''Araneus diadematus'' is commonly called the European garden spider, diadem spider, orangie, cross spider, and crowned orb weaver. It is sometimes called the pumpkin spider, although this name is also used for a different spec ...
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Misumenops celer ''Mecaphesa celer'', known generally as the swift crab spider, is a species of crab spider in the family Thomisidae. Its range is quite large, and it is found throughout much of North and Central America. ''M. celer'' are sit-and-wait predators ...
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Crustaceans

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Armadillidium vulgare ''Armadillidium vulgare'', the common pill-bug, potato bug, common pill woodlouse, roly-poly, slater, doodle bug, or carpenter, is a widespread European species of woodlouse. It is the most extensively investigated terrestrial isopod species. ...
'' (common pillbug) * '' Cambarus diogenes'' (chimney crayfish) * ''
Cambarus robustus ''Cambarus robustus'', known generally as the robust crayfish or Big Water crayfish, is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae The Cambaridae are the largest of the four families of freshwater crayfish, with over 400 Species. Most of ...
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Creaserinus fodiens ''Creaserinus'' is a genus of Digger Crayfish in the family Cambaridae. There are about 15 described species in ''Creaserinus'', found in North America. This genus was formerly considered a subgenus of ''Fallicambarus ''Fallicambarus'' is a g ...
'' (digger crayfish) * '' Faxonius immunis'' (calico crayfish) * '' Faxonius propinquus'' (northern clearwater crayfish) * ''Faxonius rusticus'' (
rusty crayfish The rusty crayfish (''Faxonius rusticus'') is a large, aggressive species of freshwater crayfish which is native to the United States, in the Ohio River Basin in parts of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Its range is rapidly expanding across much of ...
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Faxonius virilis ''Faxonius virilis'' is a species of crayfish known as the virile crayfish, northern crayfish, eastern crayfish, and lesser known as the lake crayfish or common crawfish. ''Faxonius virilis'' was reclassified in August 2017, and the genus was chan ...
'' (northern crayfish) * '' Procambarus acutus acutus'' (white river crawfish)


Insects


=Coleoptera

= * '' Brychius hungerfordi'' * '' Cicindela sexguttata'' * '' Colorado potato beetle'' * ''
Desmocerus palliatus The elderberry borer, ''Desmocerus palliatus'', is a species of Cerambycidae that occurs in Eastern North America. Description The adult is 17 to 26 mm, mostly a shimmering dark blue, and the bases of the elytra are yellow to yellow-red. ...
'' * '' Harmonia axyridis'' * ''
Megacyllene robiniae ''Megacyllene robiniae'', commonly known as the locust borer, is a species of longhorn beetle endemic to eastern North America. It is a serious pest of ''Robinia pseudoacacia'', the black locust tree, with which it is sympatric. Etymology The ...
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Neandra brunnea ''Neandra brunnea'', the pole borer, is a species of the longhorn beetle family, subfamily Parandrinae. The longhorn beetle grows between 8 and and is yellowish-brown or reddish-brown in colour with relatively short, serrate antennae. Its range ...
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Rhyssomatus lineaticollis ''Rhyssomatus lineaticollis'', also known by its common name milkweed stem weevil is a species of weevil whose adults feed on the stems of the common milkweed, ''Asclepias syriaca''. It is also destructive to the rare and threatened milkweed spec ...
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=Diptera

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Chironomus plumosus ''Chironomus plumosus'', also known as the buzzer midge, is a species of Chironomidae, nonbiting midge (Chironomidae) that occurs throughout areas in the Northern Hemisphere. Description Adult Adults are pale green with brown legs and grow to . ...
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=Dictyoptera

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Chinese mantis The Chinese mantis (''Tenodera sinensis'') is a species of mantis native to Asia and the nearby islands. In 1896 this species was accidentally introduced by a nursery tender at Mt. Airy near Philadelphia, United States. ''Tenodera sinensis'' oft ...
(introduced)


=Hemiptera

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Adelphocoris lineolatus ''Adelphocoris lineolatus'', is commonly known as the Lucerne bug or the alfalfa plant bug, and belongs to the family Miridae. It is an agricultural pest causing vast amounts of damage to numerous crops, but primarily to alfalfa crops around the ...
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Green stink bug The green stink bug or green soldier bug (''Chinavia hilaris'') is a stink bug of the family Pentatomidae. Taxonomy The species was previously placed in the genus ''Acrosternum'' but has been classified as in the genus ''Chinavia'' in the more ...
* Large milkweed bug


=Hymenoptera

= *'' Dolichovespula maculata'' *''
Polistes dominulus The European paper wasp (''Polistes dominula'') is one of the most common and well-known species of social wasps in the genus ''Polistes''. Its diet is more diverse than those of most ''Polistes'' species—many genera of insects versus mainly ca ...
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Polistes exclamans ''Polistes exclamans'', the Guinea paper wasp, is a social wasp and is part of the family Vespidae of the order Hymenoptera. It is found throughout the United States, Mexico, the Bahamas, Jamaica and parts of Canada. Due to solitary nest foundin ...
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Polistes fuscatus ''Polistes fuscatus'', whose common name is the dark or northern paper wasp, is widely found in eastern North America, from southern Canada through the southern United States. It often nests around human development. However, it greatly prefers a ...
'' *'' Polistes metricus'' *''
Vespa crabro The European hornet (''Vespa crabro'') is the largest eusocial wasp native to Europe. It is also the only true hornet (genus ''Vespa'') found in North America, having been introduced to the United States and Canada from Europe as early as 1840. ...
'' *'' Vespula maculifrons''


=Lepidoptera

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=Odonata

= * Blue dasher *''
Erythemis simplicicollis ''Erythemis simplicicollis'', the eastern pondhawk, also known as the common pondhawk, is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to the eastern two-thirds of the United States and southern Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is a dragonfly of ...
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Green darner The green darner or common green darner (''Anax junius''), after its resemblance to a darning needle, is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae. One of the most common and abundant species throughout North America, it also ranges south ...
*'' Ischnura posita'' *'' Lestes vigilax'' *''
Sympetrum vicinum ''Sympetrum vicinum'', the yellow-legged meadowhawk or autumn meadowhawk, is a member of the Libellulidae family. It grows to 26–35 mm long. Description Naiad This species has a small naiad, with a length of . It is mottled green and b ...
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Variable dancer The variable dancer (''Argia fumipennis'') is a damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae. It is native to North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bo ...


=Orthoptera

= * Differential grasshopper *''
Gryllus pennsylvanicus ''Gryllus pennsylvanicus'' is known as the fall field cricket. ''G. pennsylvanicus'' is common in southern Ontario, is widespread across much of North AmericaAlexander, R. D. 1968. Life cycle origins, speciation, and related phenomena in crickets ...
'' * Barrens or spotted-winged grasshopper * Spur-throat grasshopper * Blue-legged locust * Hebard's green-legged locust * Hoosier locust * Atlantic-coast or long-horned grasshopper * Lake Huron locust * Secretive locust * Post-oak grasshopper *'' Ceuthophilus silvestris'' *'' Ceuthophilus uhleri'' * Woodland meadow katydid *
Bog conehead A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main Wetland#Types, types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, ...
*'' Neoconocephalus retusus'' * Eelicate meadow katydid * Pine katydid * Davis's shield-bearer * Melodious ground cricket * Tamarack tree cricket * Pine tree cricket


Entognatha

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Willowsia nigromaculata ''Willowsia nigromaculata'' is a member of the family Entomobryidae Entomobryidae, sometimes called "slender springtails", is a family of springtails characterised by having an enlarged fourth abdominal segmentation (biology), segment and a ...
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Molluscs

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Planogyra asteriscus ''Planogyra astericus'', common name the eastern flat-whorl, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Valloniidae. This species is listed as of "Special Concern" in the U.S. state o ...
'' (eastern flat-whorl) *Giant floater (''
Pyganodon grandis ''Pyganodon grandis'', the giant floater, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species is fast-growing, large, and has a short lifespan. This species is native to the Un ...
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Northern riffleshell The northern riffleshell (''Epioblasma torulosa rangiana''), is a subspecies of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This subspecies is endangered. This species was formerly found widely in ...
(''Epioblasma torulosa'') * Quagga mussel (''Dreissena rostriformis bugensis'') * Zebra mussel (''Dreissena polymorpha'')


Vertebrates


Amphibians


Birds

''Longer list a
Michigan Breeding birds Atlas
Appendix 3'' * American bittern (''Botanus lentiginosus'') * American black duck (''Anas rubripes)'' * American coot (''Fulica americana'') * American crow (''Corvus brachyrhynchos'') * American goldfinch (''Carduelis tristis'') * American kestrel (''Falco sparverius'') *
American white pelican The American white pelican (''Pelecanus erythrorhynchos'') is a large aquatic soaring bird from the order Pelecaniformes. It breeds in interior North America, moving south and to the coasts, as far as Central America and South America, in winte ...
(''Pelecanus erythrorhynchos'') *
Bald eagle The bald eagle (''Haliaeetus leucocephalus'') is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (''Haliaeetus albicilla''), which occupies the same niche as ...
(''Haliaeetus leucocephalus'') *
Baltimore oriole The Baltimore oriole (''Icterus galbula'') is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of 17th century L ...
(''Icterus galbula'') *
Barn owl The barn owl (''Tyto alba'') is the most widely distributed species of owl in the world and one of the most widespread of all species of birds, being found almost everywhere except for the polar and desert regions, Asia north of the Himalaya ...
(''Tyto alba'') *
Belted kingfisher The belted kingfisher (''Megaceryle alcyon'') is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher, native to North America. All kingfishers were formerly placed in one family, Alcedinidae, but recent research suggests that this should be divided into three ...
(''Megaceryle alcyon'') * Black tern (''Chlidonias niger'') *
Black-backed woodpecker The black-backed woodpecker (''Picoides arcticus''), also known as the Arctic three-toed woodpecker, is a medium-sized woodpecker ( long) inhabiting the forests of North America. Taxonomy The black-backed woodpecker was described and illustrat ...
(''Picoides arcticus'') * Black-capped chickadee (''Poecile atricapillus'') * Snow goose (''Chen caerulescens'') * Bobolink (''Dolichonyx oryzivorus'') * Bobwhite quail (''Colinus virginianus'') * Boreal chickadee (''Poecile hudsonicus'') *
Brant goose The brant or brent goose (''Branta bernicla'') is a small goose of the genus ''Branta''. There are three subspecies, all of which winter along temperate-zone sea-coasts and breed on the high-Arctic tundra. The Brent oilfield was named after ...
(''Branta bernicla'') * Bonaparte's gull (''Larus philadelphia'') * Broad-winged hawk (''Buteo platypterus'') * Brown-headed cowbird (''Molothrus ater'') *
Canada goose The Canada goose (''Branta canadensis''), or Canadian goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is o ...
(''Branta canadensis'') * Canvasback (''Aythya valisineria'') *
Cardinal Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to: Animals * Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds **''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae **''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, the ...
(''Cardinalis cardinalis'') * Caspian tern (''Sterna caspia'') *
Common loon The common loon or great northern diver (''Gavia immer'') is a large member of the loon, or diver, family of birds. Breeding adults have a plumage that includes a broad black head and neck with a greenish, purplish, or bluish sheen, blackish o ...
(''Gavia immer'') * Common nighthawk (''Chordeiles minor'') *
Common raven The common raven (''Corvus corax'') is a large all-black passerine bird. It is the most widely distributed of all corvids, found across the Northern Hemisphere. It is a raven known by many names at the subspecies level; there are at least e ...
(''Corvis corax'') * Common tern (''Sterna hirundo'') *
Double-crested cormorant The double-crested cormorant (''Nannopterum auritum'') is a member of the cormorant family of water birds. It is found near rivers and lakes, and in coastal areas, and is widely distributed across North America, from the Aleutian Islands in Alas ...
(''Phalacrocorax auritus'') *
Dovekie The little auk or dovekie (''Alle alle'') is a small auk, the only member of the genus ''Alle''. ''Alle'' is the Sami name of the long-tailed duck; it is onomatopoeic and imitates the call of the drake duck. Linnaeus was not particularly famil ...
(''Alle alle'') * Downy woodpecker (''Dryobates pubescens'') * Eastern meadowlark (''Sturnella magna'') *
Forster's tern Forster's tern (''Sterna forsteri'') is a tern in the family Laridae. The genus name ''Sterna'' is derived from Old English "stearn", "tern", and ''forsteri'' commemorates the naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster. It breeds inland in North America ...
(''Sterna forsteri'') *
Gray catbird The gray catbird (''Dumetella carolinensis''), also spelled grey catbird, is a medium-sized North American and Central American perching bird of the mimid family. It is the only member of the "catbird" genus ''Dumetella''. Like the black catbird ...
(''Dumetella carolinensis'') *
Great blue heron The great blue heron (''Ardea herodias'') is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos ...
(''Ardea herodias'') *
Great egret The great egret (''Ardea alba''), also known as the common egret, large egret, or (in the Old World) great white egret or great white heron is a large, widely distributed egret. The four subspecies are found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and ...
(''Ardea alba'') * Great horned owl (''Bubo virginianus'') * Greater yellowlegs (''Tringa flavipes'') *
Green heron The green heron (''Butorides virescens'') is a small heron of North and Central America. ''Butorides'' is from Middle English ''butor'' "bittern" and Ancient Greek ''-oides'', "resembling", and ''virescens'' is Latin for "greenish". It was long c ...
(''Butorides virescens'') *
Hairy woodpecker The hairy woodpecker (''Leuconotopicus villosus'') is a medium-sized woodpecker that is found over a large area of North America. It is approximately in length with a wingspan. With an estimated population in 2020 of almost nine million individ ...
* Henslow's sparrow (''Ammodramus henslowii'') *
Herring gull Herring gull is a common name for several birds in the genus ''Larus'', all formerly treated as a single species. Three species are still combined in some taxonomies: * American herring gull (''Larus smithsonianus'') - North America * European he ...
(''Larus argentantus'') *
House finch The house finch (''Haemorhous mexicanus'') is a bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is native to western North America and has been introduced to the eastern half of the continent and Hawaii. This species and the other two American rosef ...
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House sparrow The house sparrow (''Passer domesticus'') is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. It is a small bird that has a typical length of and a mass of . Females and young birds are coloured pale brown and grey, a ...
* King eider (''Somateria spectabilis'') *
King rail The king rail (''Rallus elegans'') is a waterbird, the largest North American rail. Description Distinct features are a long bill with a slight downward curve, with adults being brown on the back and rusty-brown on the face and breast with a da ...
(''Rallus elegans'') *
Kirtland's warbler Kirtland's warbler (''Setophaga kirtlandii''), also known in Michigan by the common name jack pine bird, or the jack pine warbler, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family (Parulidae), named after Jared Potter Kirtland, an Ohio doctor ...
(''Dendroica kirtlandii'') * Least bittern (''Ixobrychus exilis'') *
Lesser yellowlegs The lesser yellowlegs (''Tringa flavipes'') is a medium-sized shorebird. It breeds in the boreal forest region of North America. Taxonomy The lesser yellowlegs was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in ...
(''Tringa melanoleuca'') * Loggerhead shrike (''Lanius ludovicianus'') * Long-eared owl (''Asio otis'') * Long-tailed duck (''Clangula hyemalis'') *
Mallard The mallard () or wild duck (''Anas platyrhynchos'') is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Arge ...
* Merganser *
Merlin Merlin ( cy, Myrddin, kw, Marzhin, br, Merzhin) is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a mage, with several other main roles. His usual depiction, based on an amalgamation of historic and le ...
(''Falco columbarius'') * Mourning dove (''Zenaida macroura'') *
Mute swan The mute swan (''Cygnus olor'') is a species of swan and a member of the waterfowl family Anatidae. It is native to much of Eurosiberia, and (as a rare winter visitor) the far north of Africa. It is an introduced species in North America, home ...
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Northern flicker The northern flicker or common flicker (''Colaptes auratus'') is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker spec ...
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Northern gannet The northern gannet (''Morus bassanus'') is a seabird, the largest species of the gannet family, Sulidae. It is native to the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, breeding in Western Europe and Northeastern North America. It is the largest seabird in t ...
(''Morus bassanus'') (rare in state) *
Northern goshawk The northern goshawk (; ''Accipiter gentilis'') is a species of medium-large bird of prey, raptor in the Family (biology), family Accipitridae, a family which also includes other extant diurnal raptors, such as eagles, buzzards and harrier (bird) ...
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Northern harrier The northern harrier (''Circus hudsonius''), or ring-tailed hawk, is a bird of prey. It breeds throughout the northern parts of the northern hemisphere in Canada and the northernmost USA. The northern harrier migrates to more southerly areas ...
(''Circus cyaneus'') * Northern mockingbird (''Mimus polyglottos'') *
Northern shoveler The northern shoveler (; ''Spatula clypeata''), known simply in Britain as the shoveler, is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America, wintering in southern Euro ...
(''Spatula clypeata'') *
Osprey The osprey (''Pandion haliaetus''), , also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor reaching more than in length and across the wings. It is brown o ...
(''Pandion haliaetus'') *
Peregrine falcon The peregrine falcon (''Falco peregrinus''), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan bird of prey (Bird of prey, raptor) in the family (biology), family Falco ...
(''Falco peregrinus'') * Pheasant * Pigeon * Pileated woodpecker (''Dryocuopus pileatus'') * Pintail duck (''Anas acuta'') *
Piping plover The piping plover (''Charadrius melodus'') is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America. The adult has yellow-orange-red legs, a black band across the forehead from e ...
(''Charadrius melodus'') *
Prairie warbler The prairie warbler (''Setophaga discolor'') is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. Description These birds have yellow underparts with dark streaks on the flanks, and olive overparts with rusty streaks on the back; they have a ye ...
(''Dendroica discolor'') *
Purple martin The purple martin (''Progne subis'') is a passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae. It is the largest swallow in North America. Despite its name, the purple martin is not truly purple. The dark blackish-blue feathers have an iridescent s ...
(''Progne subis'') *
Red crossbill The red crossbill or common crossbill (''Loxia curvirostra'') is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. Crossbills have distinctive mandibles, crossed at the tips, which enable them to extract seeds from conifer cones and other ...
(''Loxia curvirostra'') *
Redhead duck The redhead (''Aythya americana'') is a medium-sized diving duck. The scientific name is derived from Greek ''aithuia'', an unidentified seabird mentioned by authors including Hesychius and Aristotle, and Latin ''americana'', of America. The red ...
* Red-shouldered hawk (''Buteo lineatus'') * Red-tailed hawk *
Red-throated loon The red-throated loon (North America) or red-throated diver (Britain and Ireland) (''Gavia stellata'') is a migratory aquatic bird found in the northern hemisphere. The most widely distributed member of the loon or diver family, it breeds prim ...
* Red-winged blackbird * Ring-billed gull (''Larus delawarensis'') *
Robin Robin may refer to: Animals * Australasian robins, red-breasted songbirds of the family Petroicidae * Many members of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Old World chats), including: **European robin (''Erithacus rubecula'') **Bush-robin **Forest rob ...
* Ross's goose * Ruby-throated hummingbird * Ruffed grouse *
Rusty blackbird The rusty blackbird (''Euphagus carolinus'') is a medium-sized New World blackbird, closely related to grackles ("rusty grackle" is an older name for the species). It is a bird that prefers wet forested areas, breeding in the boreal forest and mu ...
(''Euphagus carolinus'') * Sandhill crane (''Grus canadensis'') * Scarlet tanager (''Piranga olivacea'') *
Scaup Scaup is the common name for three species of diving duck: * Greater scaup, or just "scaup", ''Aythya marila'' * Lesser scaup, ''Aythya affinis'' * New Zealand scaup, ''Aythya novaeseelandiae'' External links

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Scoter The scoters are stocky seaducks in the genus ''Melanitta''. The drakes are mostly black and have swollen bills, the females are brown. They breed in the far north of Europe, Asia, and North America, and winter farther south in temperate zones of ...
s * Sharptailed grouse *
Short-eared owl The short-eared owl (''Asio flammeus'') is a widespread grassland species in the family Strigidae. Owls belonging to genus ''Asio'' are known as the eared owls, as they have tufts of feathers resembling mammalian ears. These "ear" tufts may or ...
(''Asio flammeus'') *
Snipe A snipe is any of about 26 wading bird species in three genera in the family Scolopacidae. They are characterized by a very long, slender bill, eyes placed high on the head, and cryptic/camouflaging plumage. The ''Gallinago'' snipes have a near ...
* Snowy owl *
Sora rail The sora (''Porzana carolina'') is a small waterbird of the rail family Rallidae, sometimes also referred to as the sora rail or sora crake, that occurs throughout much of North America. The genus name ''Porzana'' is derived from Venetian terms ...
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Spruce grouse The spruce grouse (''Canachites canadensis''), also known as Canada grouse, spruce hen or fool hen, is a medium-sized grouse closely associated with the coniferous boreal forests or taiga of North America. It is the only member of the genus ''C ...
(''Canachites canadensis'') * Trumpeter swan (''Cygnus buccinator'') *
Tundra swan The tundra swan (''Cygnus columbianus'') is a small swan of the Holarctic. The two taxa within it are usually regarded as conspecific, but are also sometimes split into two species: Bewick's swan (''Cygnus bewickii'') of the Palaearctic and the w ...
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Turkey vulture The turkey vulture (''Cathartes aura'') is the most widespread of the New World vultures. One of three species in the genus ''Cathartes'' of the family Cathartidae, the turkey vulture ranges from southern Canada to the southernmost tip of South ...
(''Cathartes aura'') *
Upland sandpiper The upland sandpiper (''Bartramia longicauda'') is a large sandpiper, closely related to the curlews. Older names are the upland plover and Bartram's sandpiper. In Louisiana, it is also colloquially known as the papabotte. It is the only member ...
(''Bartramia longicauda'') *
Virginia rail The Virginia rail (''Rallus limicola'') is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae. These birds remain fairly common despite continuing loss of habitat, but are secretive by nature and more often heard than seen. They are also considered a ga ...
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Western meadowlark The western meadowlark (''Sturnella neglecta'') is a medium-sized icterid bird, about in length. It nests on the ground in open grasslands across western and central North America. It feeds mostly on bugs, but will also feed on seeds and berri ...
(''Sturnella neglecta'') *
White-fronted goose The greater white-fronted goose (''Anser albifrons'') is a species of goose related to the smaller lesser white-fronted goose (''A. erythropus''). It is named for the patch of white feathers bordering the base of its bill, in fact ''albifrons ...
* White pelican *
Wild turkey The wild turkey (''Meleagris gallopavo'') is an Upland game bird, upland ground bird native to North America, one of two extant species of Turkey (bird), turkey and the heaviest member of the order Galliformes. It is the ancestor to the domestic ...
(''Meleagris gallopavo'') * Willet (''Tringa semipalmata'') *
Wilson's phalarope Wilson's phalarope (''Phalaropus tricolor'') is a small wader. This bird, the largest of the phalaropes, breeds in the prairies of North America in western Canada and the western United States. It is migratory, wintering in inland salt lakes nea ...
(''Phalaropus tricolor'') *
Wood duck The wood duck or Carolina duck (''Aix sponsa'') is a species of perching duck found in North America. The drake wood duck is one of the most colorful North American waterfowl. Description The wood duck is a medium-sized perching duck. A typi ...
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Woodcock The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus ''Scolopax''. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name ...
* Yellow rail (''Corturnicops noveboracensis'') * Yellow-throated warbler (''Dendroica dominica'')


Extinct

* Passenger pigeon (''Ectopistes migratorius'') *
Heath hen The heath hen (''Tympanuchus cupido cupido'') is an extinct subspecies of the greater prairie chicken (''Tympanuchus cupido''), a large North American bird in the grouse family. It became extinct in 1932. Heath hens lived in the scrubby heath ...
(''Tympanuchus cupido cupido'') * Carolina parakeet (''Conuropsis carolinensis'')


Fish

* Alewife (''Alosa pseudoharengus'') * American gizzard shad (''Dorosoma cepedianum'') *
American eel The American eel (''Anguilla rostrata'') is a facultative catadromous fish found on the eastern coast of North America. Freshwater eels are fish belonging to the elopomorph superorder, a group of phylogenetically ancient teleosts. The America ...
(''Anguilla rostrata'') *
Atlantic salmon The Atlantic salmon (''Salmo salar'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the third largest of the Salmonidae, behind Siberian taimen and Pacific Chinook salmon, growing up to a meter in length. Atlantic salmon are ...
(''Salmo salar'') *
Black buffalo The black buffalo (''Ictiobus niger'') is a North American species of freshwater fish in the Catostomidae or sucker family.* . At 56 years old for one specimen's age, it is one of the longest-lived catostomids. Found in the Mississippi Basin ...
(''Ictiobus Niger'') * Black bullhead (''Ameiurus melas'') *
Black crappie The black crappie (''Pomoxis nigromaculatus'') is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two types of crappies. It is very similar to the white crappie in size, shape, and habits, except that it is darker, with a pattern of black sp ...
(''Pomoxis nigromaculatus'') *
Bluegill The bluegill (''Lepomis macrochirus''), sometimes referred to as "bream", "brim", "sunny", or "copper nose" as is common in Texas, is a species of North American freshwater fish, native to and commonly found in streams, rivers, lakes, ponds and ...
(''Lepomis macrochirus'') *
Bigmouth buffalo Bigmouth may refer to: * "Bigmouth", a song by Underworld (band), Underworld * Bigmouth, List of characters in The Smurfs#The villains, an ogre in ''The Smurfs'' comics and animated cartoon series Marine life * Bigmouth buffalo, fish * Bigmouth ...
(''Ictiobus cyprinellus'') * Brook (five-spined)
stickleback The sticklebacks are a family of ray-finned fishes, the Gasterosteidae which have a Holarctic distribution in fresh, brackish and marine waters. They were thought to be related to the pipefish and seahorses but are now thought to be more closel ...
(''Culaea inconstans'') *
Brook silverside ''Labidesthes sicculus'', also known as the Brook silverside is a North American species of Neotropical silverside. The brook silverside lives in slow moving rivers and lakes from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi Basin and Gulf Coastal Plains. T ...
(''Labidesthes sicculus'') *
Brook trout The brook trout (''Salvelinus fontinalis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus ''Salvelinus'' of the salmon family Salmonidae. It is native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada, but has been introduced elsewhere ...
(''Salvelinus fontinalis'') *
Brown bullhead The brown bullhead (''Ameiurus nebulosus'') is a fish of the family Ictaluridae that is widely distributed in North America. It is a species of bullhead catfish and is similar to the black bullhead (''Ameiurus melas'') and yellow bullhead (''Ame ...
(''Ameiurus nebulosus'') *
Brown trout The brown trout (''Salmo trutta'') is a European species of salmonid fish that has been widely introduced into suitable environments globally. It includes purely freshwater populations, referred to as the riverine ecotype, ''Salmo trutta'' morph ...
(''Salmo trutta'') *
Bowfin The bowfin (''Amia calva'') is a bony fish, native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique. It is regarded as a relict, being the sole surviving species of the Halecomorphi ...
(''Amia calve'') *
Burbot The burbot (''Lota lota'') is the only gadiform (cod-like) freshwater fish Freshwater fish are those that spend some or all of their lives in fresh water, such as rivers and lakes, with a salinity of less than 1.05%. These environments di ...
(''Lota lota'') *
Channel catfish The channel catfish (''Ictalurus punctatus'') is North America's most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a "channel cat". In the United States, the ...
(''Ictalurus punctatus'') *
Chinook salmon The Chinook salmon (''Oncorhynchus tshawytscha'') is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon in North America, as well as the largest in the genus ''Oncorhynchus''. Its common name is derived from the Chinookan peoples. Other ve ...
(''Oncorhynchus tshawytscha'') *
Coho salmon The coho salmon (''Oncorhynchus kisutch;'' Karuk: achvuun) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family and one of the five Pacific salmon species. Coho salmon are also known as silver salmon or "silvers". The scientific species name i ...
(''Oncorhynchus kisutch'') *
Common carp The Eurasian carp or European carp (''Cyprinus carpio''), widely known as the common carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.Fishbase''Cyprinus carpio'' Linnaeus, 1758/ref>Arkive The ...
(''Cyprinus carpio'') * Dace (disambiguation), Dace * Darter * Flathead catfish (''Pylodictis olivaris'') * Freshwater drum (''Aplodinotus grunniens'') * Goldfish (''Carassius auratus'') * Grass carp (''Ctenopharyngodon idella'') * Grass pickerel (''Esox americanus vermiculatus'') * Green sunfish (''Lepomis cyanellus'') * Killifish * Lake herring or northern cisco (''Coregonus artedi'') * Lake sturgeon (''Acipenser fulvescens'') * Lake trout (''Salvelinus namaycush'') * Lake whitefish (''Coregonus clupeaformis'') * Largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') * Longear sunfish (''Lepomis megalotis'') * Longnose gar (''Lepisosteus osseus'') * Longnose sucker (''Catostomus catostomus'') * round whitefish, Menominee or round whitefish (''Prosopium cylindraceum'') * Mooneye (''Hiodon tergisus'') * Muskellunge (''Esox masquinongy'') * Ninespine stickleback (''Pungitius pungitius'') * Northern hogsucker (''Hypentelium nigricans'') * Northern pike (''Esox lucius'') * Orangespotted sunfish (''Lepomis humilis'') * Oriental weatherfish (''Misgurnus anguillicaudatus'') * Pink salmon (''Oncorhynchus gorbuscha'') * Pumpkinseed (''Lepomis gibbosus'') * Quillback (''Carpiodes cyprinus'') * Rainbow darter (''Etheostoma caeruleum'') * Rainbow smelt (''Osmerus mordax'') * Rainbow trout or steelhead (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') * Redear sunfish (''Lepomis microlophus'') * River redhorse (''Moxostoma carinatum'') * Rock bass (''Ambloplites rupestris'') * Round goby (''Neogobius melanostomus'') * Ruffe (''Gymnocephalus cernuus'') * Sauger (''Sander canadensis'') * Saugeye (''Sander canadensis'' × ''Sander vitreus'') * Sculpin * Sea lamprey (''Petromyzon marinus'') * Shiner (fish), Shiner * Smallmouth bass (''Micropterus dolomieu'') * Smallmouth buffalo (''Ictiobus bubalus'') * Sockeye or kokanee (''Oncorhynchus nerka'') * Splake (''Salvelinus namaycush'' × ''Salvelinus fontinalis'') * Spotted gar (''Lepisosteus oculatus'') * Stonecat (''Noturus flavus'') * Threespine stickleback (''Gasterosteus aculeatus'') * Topminnow * Trout-perch (''Percopsis omiscomaycus'') * Tubenose goby (''Proterorhinus marmoratus'') * Walleye (''Sander vitreus'') * Warmouth (''Lepomis gulosus'') * Western mosquitofish (''Gambusia affinis'') * White bass (''Morone chrysops'') * White crappie (''Pomoxis annularis'') * White perch (''Morone americana'') * White sucker (''Catostomus commersonii'') * Yellow bullhead (''Ameiurus natalis'') * Yellow perch (''Perca flavescens'')


Extinct fish

*Bigeye chub (''Hybopsis amblops'') *Bluepike (''Sander vitreus glaucus'') *Blackfin cisco(''Coregonus nigrpinnis'') *Deepwater cisco (''Coregonus johannae'') *Thymallus arcticus, Grayling (''Thymallus arcticus'') *Ironcolor shiner (''Notropis chalybaeus'') *Mississippi paddlefish (''Polyodon spathula'') *Shortnose cisco (''Coregonus reighardi'') *Weed shiner (''Notropis texanus'')


Mammals

* American badger * American bison (extirpated) * American black bear *American ermine * American marten * American red squirrel * American water shrew * Big brown bat * North American beaver, Beaver * Bobcat * Brown rat (introduced) * Canada lynx * Cinereus shrew * Cougar (extirpated, but vagrants sighted)
MichiganCougar.com * Coyote * Peromyscus maniculatus, Deer mouse * Eastern cottontail rabbit * Eastern gray squirrel * Eastern mole * Eastern chipmunk * Eastern red bat * Eastern wolf (Repopulation of wolves in Midwestern United States, naturally repopulated) * Elk (reintroduced) * Fisher (animal), Fisher * Fox squirrel * Gray fox * Groundhog * Hoary bat * House mouse (introduced) * Indiana bat * Least chipmunk * Least weasel * Little brown bat * Long-tailed weasel * Meadow vole * Meadow jumping mouse * American mink, Mink * Moose (reintroduced) * Muskrat * North American river otter * Northern short-tailed shrew * North American porcupine * Prairie vole * Raccoon * Red fox * Silver-haired bat * Snowshoe hare * Southern bog lemming * Southern flying squirrel * Star-nosed mole * Striped skunk * Thirteen-lined ground squirrel * Virginia opossum * White-footed mouse * White-tailed deer * Wolverine (extirpated) * Boreal woodland caribou, Woodland caribou (extirpated) * Woodland jumping mouse * Woodland vole


Reptiles


References


Identifying Michigan Fish
Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Michigan Department of Natural Resources

James W. Fetzner Jr., Section of Invertebrate Zoology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, 28 January 2008

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