Lakeside Nature Center Lakeside Nature Center Species List 2022

DesertTortoise

DesertTortoise

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Species list for Lakeside Nature Center (Kansas City, Missouri)

Notes
Date of visit: August 6, 2022
No-shows are in italics

All exhibits are viewed from the same building.
All bird of prey enclosures and the coyote exhibit are outside. Everything else has an indoor exhibit.

Exhibits

Forests
  • Ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata)
  • Domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus)
  • Coyote (Canis latrans)
  • Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
  • Broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus)
  • Western hog-nosed snake (Heterodon nasicus)
  • Red milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum syspila)
  • Empty
  • Western rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus)
  • Western hog-nosed snake (Heterodon nasicus)
  • Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)
  • Empty
  • Speckled kingsnake (Lampropeltis holbrooki)
  • Pygmy rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius)
  • Timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)
  • Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
  • American toad (Anaxyrus americanus)
  • Gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor) and green treefrog (Hyla cinerea)
Prairie
  • Eastern collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)
  • Common five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus)
  • Missouri tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi)
Rivers
  • Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)
  • Eastern tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)
  • Western painted turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii)
  • Blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus)
  • Unspecified crayfish
  • False map turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica)
  • Empty
  • Common musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus)
  • Alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii)
Night life
  • Southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans)
  • Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)
  • Unspecified wolf spider
  • Unspecified millipede
  • House mouse (Mus musculus)
  • Domestic rat (Rattus norvegicus domestica)
  • Eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus)
Large yard with perches for individual birds
  • Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
  • American kestrel (Falco sparverius)
  • Broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus)
  • Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
  • Mississippi kite (Ictinia mississippiensis)
  • Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
  • Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio)
  • Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus)
 
DesertTortoise said:
They do. The mole was very active on my visit, but pretty much impossible to photograph. The exhibit is in a darkened room and consists of a series of see-through tunnels that are partially filled with dirt.
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Oh wow!

You didn't happen to photograph the exhibit did you? This is probably the only mole of any species on public display in North America.
 
CMTM said:
Oh wow!

You didn't happen to photograph the exhibit did you? This is probably the only mole of any species on public display in North America.
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I did photograph the exhibit. Since I am new I cannot upload pictures to the Zoochat gallery just yet. If you google Lakeside Nature Center, go to photos, and click on latest, I have posted a picture of the exhibit.
 
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