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5 targets · 3 carrying a caution · 3 never recorded here

Mammals

Five species: two you may well meet on a two-track, and three bats that are protected and are not photographic subjects.

The number on each card is how many public observation records exist for the archipelago. It is not an abundance and not a probability of seeing one: a record means somebody reported the species and filed it publicly, so conspicuous animals and well-watched places both score high — and a zero can mean the animal is absent, or only that nobody looked.

3 of these carry a caution. Those species are protected, rare or colonial nesters: photograph from distance with a long lens, or not at all. A failed nest is not worth a frame.

White-tailed deer

Odocoileus virginianus
20records

The island's most-photographed mammal by default. Look for them at field edges in the first and last hour.

peak May, July, SeptemberBeaver Island

20 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py

Snowshoe hare

Lepus americanus
6records

Brown in summer, white in winter, and wrong for a few weeks in between - which is the picture worth having.

Beaver Island

6 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py

Little brown bat

Myotis lucifugus
0records

Devastated by white-nose syndrome. Do not disturb roosts.

never recorded here

no observation records retrieved·queried in the GBIF retrieval and returned nothing - the species is documented for the region, not confirmed here

Northern long-eared bat

Myotis septentrionalis
0records

Listed species. Roosts are not a photo subject.

never recorded here

no observation records retrieved·queried in the GBIF retrieval and returned nothing - the species is documented for the region, not confirmed here

Tricolored bat

Perimyotis subflavus
0records

Listed species. Do not disturb roosts.

never recorded here

no observation records retrieved·queried in the GBIF retrieval and returned nothing - the species is documented for the region, not confirmed here