Mammals and some Other Nature 
found during FONT Tours
in North Carolina  

1992 thru 2007

(during the months of May, June, July, August)

Lists compiled by Armas Hill 


PHOTO AT RIGHT:
an "OFFSHORE" COMMON BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN



The numbers in the following list reflect the number of years found 
(out of 8 - the number of years for which mammal 
 & other wildlife records have been kept).



Lists follow of Marine Mammals & Land Mammals

with a subsequent list of "other Oceanic Life" 
and a note pertaining to "nature in the Sky".  

  

Links:

List of Birds during Previous North Carolina Tours

List of Butterflies, Dragonflies, & Damselflies in North Carolina

List of North Carolina Amphibians & Reptiles

Upcoming FONT Birding & Nature Tours in North Carolina

Marine Mammals:

1. Great Sperm Whale (p) * ______ 4 
   Physeter catodon
   
   
2. Northern Minke Whale (p) ______ 1  
   Balaenoptera acutorostrata
   
   
3. Cuvier's Beaked Whale (p) * ______ 8
   Ziphius cavirostris
   
   
4. Blainville's Beaked Whale (p) ______ 1 
   Mesoplodon densirostris
   
   
5. True's Beaked Whale (p) ______ 1  
   Mesoplodon mirus mesoplodon sp.(p) 2
   
   
6. False Killer Whale (p) ______ * 1  
   Pseudorca crassidens
   
   
7. Gray Grampus (or Risso's Dolphin) (p) ______ 3  
   Grampus griseus
   
   
8. Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin (+p) ______ 8 
   Tursiops truncatus
   
   
9. Atlantic Spotted Dolphin (p) ______ 4  
   Stenella frontalis
   
   
10. Short-finned Pilot Whale (p) ______ 8 
    Globicephala macrorhynchus
    
    
11. Clymene (or Short-snouted Spinner) Dolphin (p) * ______ 1
    Stenella clymene
    

 Land Mammals:

1. Nutria (i) ______ 5
   Myocastor coypus
   
   
2. Hispid Cotton Rat ______ 1
   Sigmodon hispidus
   
   
3. Northern River Otter ______ 3
   Lontra canadensis
   
   
4. American Mink ______ 1
   Mustela vison
   
   
5. Northern Raccoon ______ 1
   Procyon lotor
   
   
6. Eastern Cottontail ______ 7
   Sylvilagus floridannus
   
   
7. Marsh Rabbit ______ 8
   Sylvilagus palistris
   
   
8. Eastern Gray Squirrel ______ 3
   Sciurus carolinensis
   
   
9. Eastern Fox Squirrel ______ 1
   Sciurus niger
   
   
10. White-tailed Deer ______ 5
    Odocoileus virginianus
    
    
    
    
    White-tailed Deer
    (photo by Howard Eskin)
    
    
11. Black Bear * ______ 4
    Urus americannus
    
    
12. Bobcat ______ 2
    Lynx rufus
    
    
13. Red Wolf (i) * ______ 3
    Canis rufus (some contend this to be a "historical hybrid" between the Gray Wolf, Canis lupus, and the Coyote, Canis latrans) (The "Red Wolf" was introduced into eastern North Carolina from the Southwest US.)   
    
    
14. Little Brown Bat/Myotis ______ 1
    Myotis lucifugus
    
    
15. Seminole Bat ______ 2
    Lasiurus seminolus
    
    
16. Eastern Pipistrelle ______ 2
    Pipistrellus subflavus

Other Land Mammals that occur in eastern North Carolina:

1. Least Shrew ______
   Cryptotis parva
   
   
2. Star-nosed Mole ______ 
   Condylura cristata
   
   
3. Virginia Opossum ______ 
   Didelphis virginiana
   
   
4. Southern Flying Squirrel ______ 
   Glaucomys volans
   
   
5. American Beaver ______ 
   Castor canadensis
   
   
6. Muskrat ______ 
   Ondatra zibethicus
   
   
7. White-footed Deermouse ______ 
   Peromyscus leucopus
   
   
8. Golden Mouse ______ 
   Ochrotomys nuttalli
   
   
9. Red Fox ______ 
   Vulpes vulpes
   
   
   
   
   Red Fox
   (photo by Howard Eskin)
   
   
10. Gray Fox ______ 
    Urocyon cinereoargenteus
    
    
11. Coyote ______ 
    Canis latrans
    
    
12. Red Bat ______ 
    Lasiurus borealis
    
     

Reference for this mammal list is the new book: "Mammals of North America" by Roland W. Kays & Don E. Wilson, published by Princeton Univ Press, 2002. 
   

Other Nature:

 • in the sea:

1. Longbill Spearfish (p) ______
   
   
2. Portuguese Man-o'-war (p) ______
   
   
3. Oceanic Sunfish (p) ______
   
   
4. Blue Marlin (p) ______
   
   
5. Leatherback Sea Turtle (p) ______
   
   
6. Loggerhead Sea Turtle (p) ______
   
   
   
   Loggerhead Sea Turtle
   (photo by Alan Brady)
   
   
7. creatures in sargassum (p) ______

 
• in the sky:

the Perseid Meteor Shower ______
(In the clear sky above an inland area with no "city lights". The display of meteors about midnight in August can be superb.)