Wildlife of Alabama’s Ridge and Valley Region

The region supports diverse fauna:

Mammals

White-tailed deer, cottontail rabbit, gray/fox squirrel, flying squirrel, raccoon, opossum, striped skunk, bobcat, coyote.

Birds

Wild turkey, bobwhite, mourning dove, screech-owl, great horned owl, barred owl, red-tailed/Cooper’s/sharp-shinned hawks, kestrel, woodpeckers (red-headed, pileated, downy, hairy), bluebird, mockingbird, cardinal, titmouse, chickadee, nuthatches, wrens, kinglets, buntings, dickcissel.

Reptiles

Box turtles (eastern, three-toed), fence lizard, six-lined racerunner, water snakes (northern, brown), rattlesnakes (diamondback, pygmy).

Amphibians

Newts, salamanders (tiger, spotted, marbled, Jefferson, two-lined, red-backed, dusky), frogs (mountain chorus, spring peeper, gray tree, green, bullfrog).

Fish

Trout (rainbow, brown, brook), bass (smallmouth, largemouth, spotted, redeye, rock), sunfish (bluegill, redear, green, pumpkinseed, longear), crappie (black, white), perch, walleye, sauger, pike, muskellunge, carp, catfish (channel, blue, flathead).