Eastern American Wildlife Species: Maryland Edition
The state of Maryland is home to various species of wildlife, the largest group being birds at more than 400 species. Maryland is also home to a few hundred species of marine and freshwater animals, almost 100 species of reptiles and amphibians, and roughly 90 mammal species. You will also find an uncountable amount of interesting insects buzzing around.
Maryland forest
Click on the images below to discover Maryland's wildlife.
two muskrats on a log in the water
Maryland Mammals:
Find facts about muskrats and more
southern leopard frog
Reptiles & Amphibians:
Slither with the snakes or frolic with the frogs
goldfinch
Birds:
Can you spot the chipping sparrow or catch the goldfinch?
yellow orb-weaver on web
Interesting Invertebrates:
Buzz with the bees and weave webs with spiders
"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days ou our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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