Animals Common in your Hometown

Enzo said:
Most common other than domestic animals, invertebrates, rats, pigeons and sparrows?
•Reptiles:
-tropical house gecko;
-Tropidurus oreadicus;
•Mammals:
-common marmoset (I);
•Birds:
-black-headed vulture;
-southern lapwing;
-ruddy ground dove;
-black-crowned night heron;
-cattle egret;
-great egret;
-snowy egret;
-white-eyed conure;
-great kiskadee;
-masked water tyrant;
-rufous-bellied thrush.
PS: I'm just listing animals that are commonly seen by me in my hometown (Nova Iguaçu). If you guys want a list of species that I commonly see in other places of the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, tell me.
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Some corrections and addictions to my list:
•Reptiles:
-Tropidurus torquatus (instead of Tropidurus oreadicus);
-tropical house gecko;
•Mammals:
-common marmoset (I);
•Birds:
-black-headed vulture;
-southern lapwing;
-greater ani;
-smooth-billed ani;
-Picazuro pigeon;
-ruddy ground dove;
-black-crowned night heron;
-cattle egret;
-great egret;
-white-eyed parakeet;
-boat-billed flycatcher;
-great kiskadee;
-masked water tyrant;
-rufous hornero;
-rufous-bellied thrush;
-common waxbill (I);
-chopi blackbird (instead of giant cowbird).
Some other species I've seen or heard in the city, but possibly aren't as common as those include the roadside hawk (there's a specimen nearby my house which I'm able to hear almost every morning) and the yellow-headed caracara.
 
Enzo said:
Some corrections and addictions to my list:
•Reptiles:
-Tropidurus torquatus (instead of Tropidurus oreadicus);
-tropical house gecko;
•Mammals:
-common marmoset (I);
•Birds:
-black-headed vulture;
-southern lapwing;
-greater ani;
-smooth-billed ani;
-Picazuro pigeon;
-ruddy ground dove;
-black-crowned night heron;
-cattle egret;
-great egret;
-white-eyed parakeet;
-boat-billed flycatcher;
-great kiskadee;
-masked water tyrant;
-rufous hornero;
-rufous-bellied thrush;
-common waxbill (I);
-chopi blackbird (instead of giant cowbird).
Some other species I've seen or heard in the city, but possibly aren't as common as those include the roadside hawk (there's a specimen nearby my house which I'm able to hear almost every morning) and the yellow-headed caracara.
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In the Tinguá biological reserve which is fairly near to where you are there are quite a few mammal species.

You have population of buffy tufted marmoset (pure population decreasing heavily because of hybridization with invasive marmosets) brown howler, Southern muriqui, tayra, crab eating racoon, agouti, tapeti, margay, puma, jaguarundi, ocelot and perhaps sporadically bush dogs.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
In the Tinguá biological reserve which is fairly near to where you are there are quite a few mammal species.

You have population of buffy tufted marmoset (pure population decreasing heavily because of hybridization with invasive marmosets) brown howler, Southern muriqui, tayra, crab eating racoon, agouti, tapeti, margay, puma, jaguarundi, ocelot and perhaps sporadically bush dogs.
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Nice. After knowing these data, I'm really interested on visiting the reserve.
 
In my backyard, we have a flock of around 30 wild turkeys that nest in the trees behind our house. We also get a bunch of the other standard songbirds- I've recorded White-breasted nuthatches, black-capped chickadees, gray catbird, northern cardinal, ruby-throated hummingbird, american goldfinch, blue jay, etc. One thing to note is since the turkeys made themselves at home a number of years ago, I've stopped seeing robins. My best guess is that the turkeys displaced them as they are a predominately ground-dwelling passerines. I also commonly see gray squirrels, chipmunks, and the occasional green frog. Not in recent years, but I do remember broad-winged hawks breeding in our backyard a number of years ago. They would use the swing set in my backyard for training the juveniles how to fly. I've never seen them, but I do hear some coyotes rather frequently as well.
 
Many of the normal animals like coyotes, gray foxes, and mule deer have already been mentioned so I'm going to first talk about some invasive species then focus on the ocean.
There are two invasive species: Red Masked Parakeet and Indian Peafowl
In the oceans we have:
  • Bottlenose Dolphin
  • Great White Shark (right next to my town on account of the dolphins keeping them out)
  • Common Dolphin
  • Risso's Dolphin
  • California Sea Lion
  • Harbor Seal
  • Elephant Seal
  • Orca
  • Sperm Whale
  • Grey Whale
  • Opaleye
  • Girabaldi
  • Bat Ray
  • Leopard Shark
  • Giant Sea Bass
  • Giant Moray Eel
  • Sheepshead
  • Kelp Bass
  • Whale Shark
  • Shrotfin Mako Shark
  • Tiger Shark (You don't believe me? https://www.calacademy.org/sites/de.../seigel_etal._1995_california_tiger_shark.pdf)
  • Thresher Shark
  • Black Tip Shark (NOT reef shark)
  • Pacific Angel Shark
  • Giant Oceanic Manta Ray
  • Tufted Puffin
  • Brown Pelican
  • Blue Heron
  • Bald Eagle (I'm including them here because I have seen species close to the ocean on neighboring islands)
  • Loggerhead Sea Turtle
  • Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
There are more species of shark, ray, and mammal I can include but I think I've got the big ones that really make you scratch your head.
 
Westcoastperson said:
Many of the normal animals like coyotes, gray foxes, and mule deer have already been mentioned so I'm going to first talk about some invasive species then focus on the ocean.
There are two invasive species: Red Masked Parakeet and Indian Peafowl
In the oceans we have:
  • Bottlenose Dolphin
  • Great White Shark (right next to my town on account of the dolphins keeping them out)
  • Common Dolphin
  • Risso's Dolphin
  • California Sea Lion
  • Harbor Seal
  • Elephant Seal
  • Orca
  • Sperm Whale
  • Grey Whale
  • Opaleye
  • Girabaldi
  • Bat Ray
  • Leopard Shark
  • Giant Sea Bass
  • Giant Moray Eel
  • Sheepshead
  • Kelp Bass
  • Whale Shark
  • Shrotfin Mako Shark
  • Tiger Shark (You don't believe me? https://www.calacademy.org/sites/de.../seigel_etal._1995_california_tiger_shark.pdf)
  • Thresher Shark
  • Black Tip Shark (NOT reef shark)
  • Pacific Angel Shark
  • Giant Oceanic Manta Ray
  • Tufted Puffin
  • Brown Pelican
  • Blue Heron
  • Bald Eagle (I'm including them here because I have seen species close to the ocean on neighboring islands)
  • Loggerhead Sea Turtle
  • Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
There are more species of shark, ray, and mammal I can include but I think I've got the big ones that really make you scratch your head.
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If you don't mind me asking, what town is it you live in that has this impressive of a list of wild ocean life?
 
Neil chace said:
If you don't mind me asking, what town is it you live in that has this impressive of a list of wild ocean life?
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Los Angeles. If I include the Chanel Islands we also have Island Foxes, Indian Blackbuck, and Bison. We used to have Sea Otters, Grizzly Bears, and Jaguars before they were driven out. I also forgot to mention California Quail, California Condor, Turkey Vulture, Golden Eagle.
Los Angeles is well known for it's wide variety of environments: Mountains, Deserts, Beaches, Kelp Forests, and, Deep Trenches which attribute to the wide variety of species. Also, Los Angeles is a cutoff point for many cold water and tropical species which helps attribute to its strange species. It's a shame our main aquarium doesn't have space for species like whale sharks but at one point they did hold a Juvenile Tiger Shark for a while but definitely don't have space for a full-grown one.
 
Wood pigeons, collared doves, lots of jackdaws, blackbirds, magpies, a lot of starlings down at the seafront which occasionally come about a mile further in to where I live, lots of gulls (I’m not great with identifying gulls), there’s quite a few pied wagtails on my school grounds, small birds such as tits and robins, sparrowhawks occasionally, feral pigeons are usually down the seafront but occasionally come a bit further in, small bats at night, seals, sometimes we get dolphins, there are also a number of red foxes in the area but I’ve never seen one personally although I’m told that one regularly visits my school field on a night, and then we’ve got the smaller animals that you’d expect of most places, mice, rats, spiders, wood lice etc

and then up in the fields we get pheasants, deer (once again I’m not too sure what species), badgers although I’ve never seen one, last year a number of lapwings took residence in a local field for a while, I see kestrels occasionally and there’s also lots of rabbits up there.

I haven’t gone into ducks, geese, swans, voles, shrews, squirrels, weasels, stoats and I’m sure there’s a lot more I haven’t mentioned but they’re all of the animals I’ve seen or heard about around here.
 
I will stick to the original topic, which is animals that are common (which I equate to easily seen).

Birds: Cooper's hawk is the most common raptor in the Tucson area, both in the city and the surrounding desert (I photographed one from my balcony). Several species of hummingbird (maybe Anna's is most common?). Great-tailed grackle in the city itself, phainopepla and cactus wren and gila woodpecker in the surrounding desert. Greater roadrunner both in the city (areas with enough vegetation) and the surrounding areas.

Mammals: Coyote is the most common large mammal and can be seen anywhere, especially in the (usually dry) riverbeds but even in the city in the middle of the night. Desert cottontail rabbits are also anywhere there is sufficient vegetation (such as neighborhoods near a dry riverbed). In the Tucson Mountains, where I live, mule deer and javelina are common. In fact javelina graze through my condominium complex on a daily basis.
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Reptiles are not as easily seen as one would think. I would not call any common in the sense that they are often seen (though certainly many are around).
 
Westcoastperson said:
Sperm Whale
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Westcoastperson said:
Bat Ray
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Westcoastperson said:
  • Giant Sea Bass
  • Giant Moray Eel
  • Sheepshead
  • Kelp Bass
  • Whale Shark
  • Shrotfin Mako Shark
  • Thresher Shark
  • Black Tip Shark (NOT reef shark)
  • Pacific Angel Shark
  • Giant Oceanic Manta Ray
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Westcoastperson said:
Los Angeles. If I include the Chanel Islands we also have Island Foxes, Indian Blackbuck, and Bison. We used to have Sea Otters, Grizzly Bears, and Jaguars before they were driven out. I also forgot to mention California Quail, California Condor, Turkey Vulture, Golden Eagle.
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Don't think any of the species above really are 'common in your hometown', particularly not the various shark species that can only really be seen rarely on diving trips etc. Grizzlies and Jaguars are certainly not applicable :P

I think the point is more to think of species that are (near) guaranteed sightings if someone were to travel to your city/town. Would be great to come to LA and see Channel foxes, California condors and jaguars on a daily basis but unfortunately... :)

As for London, depends where you are but:

In terms of mammals, only guarantee is Eastern grey squirrel, then beyond that foxes, rats and mice if you know where to look.

As for birds, most common would be magpies, carrion crows, woodpigeons, ring-necked parakeets, feral pigeons, blackbirds, robins, a few species of tit (blue, great, coal) and sparrows. If you are near a body of water, mallards, swans and canada geese are often easy to find. Rarer sightings in the centre include goldfinches, greenfinches, dunnocks, thrushes, sparrowhawks and sometimes even a woodpecker. Otherwise really quite sparse over here, not too much variety and pretty much a set list of species it is actually possible to see.

We have virtually no reptiles in London, but Smooth and Great crested newts are possible if you know where to look and so are frogs and toads sometimes. Fish I have no clue but not many I'd imagine, and insects are quite sparse in comparison to the countryside once again.
 
amur leopard said:
Don't think any of the species above really are 'common in your hometown', particularly not the various shark species that can only really be seen rarely on diving trips etc. Grizzlies and Jaguars are certainly not applicable :p

I think the point is more to think of species that are (near) guaranteed sightings if someone were to travel to your city/town. Would be great to come to LA and see Channel foxes, California condors and jaguars on a daily basis but unfortunately... :)
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Your right I did kind of loose the point of the thread. Here are the more common species
  • Bottlenose Dolphin
  • Great White Shark (right next to my town on account of the dolphins keeping them out)
  • Common Dolphin
  • California Sea Lion
  • Harbor Seal
  • Northern Elephant Seal
  • Orca
  • Sperm Whale
  • Grey Whale
  • Opaleye
  • Garibaldi
  • Bat Ray
  • Leopard Shark
  • Giant Sea Bass
  • Giant Moray Eel
  • Sheepshead
  • Kelp Bass
  • Shortfin Mako Shark
  • Common Thresher Shark
  • Blacktip Shark
  • Pacific Angel Shark
  • Brown Pelican
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Bald Eagle
  • Loggerhead Sea Turtle
 
Here are some common ones near me:

-Eastern Gray Squirrel
-Eastern Chipmunk
-Black-capped Chickadee
-House Finch
-American Goldfinch
-American Robin
-Cedar Waxwing
-Mallard
-Canada Goose
-Common Merganser
-Common Goldeneye
-Red-tailed Hawk
-Northern Cardinal
-Mourning Dove
-Bald Eagle
-Ring-billed Gull
-Herring Gull
-Great Blue Heron
-Dark-eyed Junco
-House Sparrow
-Song Sparrow
-Red-winged Blackbird
-Common Grackle
 
In my native area:

Mammals include species of raccoons, opossums, squirrels, rabbits, rats, and rarely animals like skunks on occasions, but not much else coming to mind right away.
In terms of birds, we have animals like herons and egrets living in rivers in the city, a pretty common sighting actually. Also blue jays, cardinals, robins, doves, magpies, grackles, blackbirds, sparrows, finches, the usual.
 
I live in a mostly rural area, so wildlife are common everywhere. Some that are common:
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Fox Squirrel
Eastern Cottontail
Red Fox
Coyote
White-tailed Deer
Raccoon
Virginia Opossum
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Mockingbird
House Finch
Song Sparrow
Carolina Wren
American Kestrel
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Hooded Merganser
 
There are a lot of American crows in the region with a red-tailed Hawk nest nearby. I’ve also seen lots of rabbits, eastern grey squirrels and wild Turkey
 
Some common animals around my area include:

Masked Palm Civet
Tanuki (Japanese Raccoon Dog)
Brown Rat
House Mouse
Japanese House Bat

Muscovy Duck
Eastern Spot Billed Duck
Mallard
Little Grebe
Grey Heron
Great Egret
Little Egret
Great Cormorant
Black Eared Kite
Eurasian Coot
Feral Pigeon
Oriental Turtle Dove
Common Kingfisher
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
Rose Ringed Parakeet
Azure Winged Magpie
Oriental Crow
Large Billed Crow
Varied Tit
Japanese Tit
Barn Swallow
Brown Eared Bulbul
Japanese Bush Warbler
Japanese White Eye
White Cheeked Starling
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
White Wagtail
Oriental Greenfinch
 
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