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.
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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