Big Bend _ Mammalian Species List
Hello!
I have included a full list of mammalian species that are present in the Big Bend area. There are 75 species included within 23 families. I hope we are able to see quite a bit! Enjoy!
Most Big Bend mammals are nocturnal. Those that are active during daylight hours can usually be seen in the early morning and just before sunset.
Big Bend Mammalian Species:
- Jaguarundi
- Ocelet
- Gray Wolf
- Common Muskrat
- Virginia Opossum
- Nine-Banded Armadillo
- Barbary Sheep
- Bighorn Sheep
- Pronghorn
- White-tailed Deer
- Nutria
- Elk or Wapiti
- Mule Deer
- Bobcat
- Mountain Lion
- American Badger
- Western Spotted Skunk
- Hooded Skunk
- Striped Skunk
- Common Hog-nosed Skunk
- Long-tailed Weasel
- Black Bear
- Gray Fox
- Kit or Swift Fox
- Coyote
- Porcupine
- House Mouse
- Southern Plains Woodrat
- Mexican Woodrat
- White-throated Woodrat
- Hispid Cotton Rat
- Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat
- Mearns’ Grasshopper Mouse
- White-ankled Mouse
- Deer Mouse
- White-footed Mouse
- Cactus Mouse
- Brush Mouse
- Plains Harvest Mouse
- Western Harvest Mouse
- Fulvous Harvest Mouse
- American Beaver
- Ord’s Kangaroo Rat
- Merriam’s Kangaroo Rat
- Desert Pocket Mouse
- Nelson’s Pocket Mouse
- Silky Pocket Mouse
- Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher
- Botta’s Pocket Gopher
- Rock Squirrel
- Spotted Ground Squirrel
- Mexican Ground Squirrel
- Texas Antelope Squirrel
- Western Mastiff Bats
- Big Free-tailed Bat
- Brazilian Free-tailed Bat
- Pocketed Free-tailed
- Pallid Bat
- Townsend’s Big-eared Bat
- Spotted Bat
- Hoary Bat
- Eastern Red Bat
- Big Brown Bat
- Western Pipistrelle
- Yuma Myotis
- Long-legged Myotis
- Cave Myotis
- Fringed Myotis
- Western Small-footed Myotis
- California Myotis
- Mexican Long-nosed Bat
- Ghost-faced Bat
- Desert Shrew
- Black-tailed Jackrabbit
- Eastern Cottontail
- Desert Cottontail
- Collared Peccary
- Feral Pig