Animals Common in your Hometown

Some Common animals in my local area are-
some form of released turtle, perhaps a slider?
egyptian goose and mandarin ducks
mute swans
grey squirrels
rats and mice
grass snake
grey heron
kingfisher
european rabbit
european hedgehog
red fox
stoat
tree sparrow
house sparrow
blue tit / lots of small birds
starlings
 
Some common animals in my neighbourhood:
Red squirrel
Brown rat
Black rat
House mouse
Blank vole
Common rabbit
European hare
Common hedgehog
Stoat
Stone marten
Red fox
Common wood pigeon
Rock pigeon
Common blackbird
House sparrow
Common starling
Great tit
Blue tit
Magpie
Carrion crow
Kestrel
Common buzzard
Edible frog
European brown frog
Common toad
 
Growing up in one of the largest cities in the world (Jakarta) often mean you didn't see a lot wild animals around. Though from my experience, Eurasian tree-sparrow are somewhat abundant and more rarely zebra dove and Javan myna are found. House geckos are everywhere and most often you saw Asian water monitors near small rivers. Amphibians that I have seen in Jakarta are Polypedates leucomystax and Duttaphrynus melanostictus. Fishes that I've saw are generally invasive species like mosquitofish and some tilapias. For mammals, suprisingly, the lesser short-nosed fruit bats are very common even around my neighbourhood. Plantain squirrels are also somewhat common, while I've only saw an young Asian palm civet once for a brief time until it dissappear quickly into the bushes around two years ago.
 
In contrast to @Rizz Carlton , I live in a relatively rural area of Indonesia (Surakarta) which has developed rapidly in the past 20 years. Still, it's not hard to see wildlife here especially where there are still a lot of native plants.

Fish:
  • Mosquitofish (Invasive)
  • Guppies (Invasive)
  • Asian Swamp Eel
  • Tilapia (Invasive)
Reptiles
  • Changeable Lizard (Invasive to Java)
  • Green Crested Lizard
  • Asian Water Monitor
  • Sun Skink
  • House Geckos (3-4 species)
  • Tokay Gecko
  • Brahminy Blind Snake
  • Asian Vine Snake
  • Puff-faced Water Snake
  • Draco lizards
Amphibians
  • Kaloula baleata
  • Duttaphrynus melanostictus
  • Polypedates leucomystax
  • Chalcorana chalconota
  • Fejevarya limnonectes
Birds
  • Pigeons (Invasive)
  • House Sparrow (Invasive)
  • Black breasted Munia
  • White headed Munia
  • Yellow vented Bulbul
  • Sooty headed Bulbul
  • Cattle Egret
Mammals
  • Rats
  • Mice
  • Feral Cats
  • Feral Dogs
  • Javan Mongoose
  • Asian Palm Civet
 
So far I encountered these in Jakarta and neighboring areas (i.e Bintaro and BSD):

Mammals:
  • Rats
  • Mice
  • Feral cats
  • Feral dogs
  • Asian palm civet
  • Plantain squirrel (sometimes seen on my way to my campus, fleeting across electric wires)
  • Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
  • Large flying fox
Birds:
  • House sparrow
  • Pigeons
  • Zebra dove
  • Savanna nightjar (a.k.a that one bird that chirps in the night, usually after dusk and before sunrise. Not heard until around the early 2020s)
Reptiles:
  • Common house gecko
  • Flat-tailed house gecko
  • Tokay gecko (only heard once on my way home from a local Indomaret)
  • Changeable lizard
  • Asian grass lizard
  • Sun skink
  • Asian water monitor (one invaded my house back in 2024 after a huge storm. It climbed up into the attic)
Amphibians:
  • Duttaphrynus melanostictus (not seen anymore in my place since the 2010s. used to be common)
Fish:
  • Mosquitofish
Here's the photo of the scaly attic invader itself:

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I live in the suburbs of Bucks County outside Philadelphia. Some mammals I see include eastern grey squirrels, white-tailed deer, red foxes, and on rare occasions I've seen striped skunks, common raccoons, and Virginia opossums. There are a lot of birds. There are American robins, red-tailed hawks, Cooper's hawks, blue jays, turkey vultures, American crows, invasive European starlings and house sparrows, mourning doves, Canada geese, mallards, and great blue herons. Reptiles I've seen include common garter snakes, eastern box turtles, pond sliders, and common snapping turtles. Amphibians include American toads, American bullfrogs, and green frogs. Fish include eastern blacknose dace and green sunfish. Invertebrates include western honey bees, bald-faced hornets, monarch butterflies, cabbage white butterflies, eastern tiger swallowtails, Asian lady beetles, Asian tiger mosquitoes, spotted orbweaver spiders, American dog ticks, and earthworms.
 
BIRDS
Rainbow Lorikeet
Magpie-lark
Common Myna (introduced)
Sahul Sunbird
Masked Lapwing
Willie-wagtail
Torresian Imperial-Pigeon
Peaceful Dove
Australian Brushturkey
Orange-footed Scrubfowl
White-breasted Woodswallow
Hornbill Friarbird
Papuan Frogmouth
Spangled Drongo
Bush Stone-curlew
Brown Honeyeater
Welcome Swallow
Laughing Kookaburra
Rainbow Bee-eater
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
Green Oriole
Black Butcherbird
Bar-tailed Godwit
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Great Knot
Whimbrel
Far Eastern Curlew
Australian White Ibis
Australian Pelican
Great Crested Tern
Australian Tern

MAMMALS
Spectacled Flying-fox
Red-legged Pademelon
Agile Wallaby
Eastern Tube-nosed Bat (often heard but rarely seen)

REPTILES and AMPHIBIANS
Closed-litter Rainbow Skink
Asian House Gecko (introduced)
Krefft's River Turtle
White-lipped Tree Frog
Cane Toad (introduced)

FISHES
Barred Mudskipper
Pug-headed Mudskipper
Pikey Bream
Sevenspot Archerfish
Banded Archerfish
Crescent Grunter
Northern River Garfish
Blackspot Longtom
Jungle Perch
Eastern Rainbowfish
Pacific Blue-eye
Australian Snakehead Gudgeon
Spotted Tilapia (introduced)
Mozambique Tilapia (introduced)
Spotted Scat
Striped Scat
Mangrove Jack
Eastern Mosquitofish (introduced)
Empire Gudgeon
Australian Spangled Gudgeon

INVERTEBRATES
Green Tree Ant
Northern Jewelled Spider
Cairns Birdwing
Ulysses Swallowtail
Chocolate Argus
Giant Golden Orbweaver
Zodiac Moth
Four O'clock Moth
Northern St Andrew's Cross Spider
Australian Lurcher
Rentz's Treerunner Mantis
Dilochrosis brownii
Indo-Pacific Swamp Crab
Compressed Fiddler Crab
Swift's Ant-hunter Spider
Opalescent Pendant-Snail
Tropical Beehive Snail
Mud Creeper
Blue Blubber Jelly
 
INSECTS
Australian Tiger Crane Fly
Brown Flower Beetle

MAMMALS
Rakali (Water Rat)
Western Grey Kangaroo
Brushtail Possum

REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
Dugite
Southwestern Snake-necked Turtle
Two-toed Earless Skink
Buchanan's Snake-eyed Skink
Rattling Froglet
Southern Marbled Gecko

BIRDS
Galah
Australian Ibis
Australian Magpie
Straw-necked Ibis
Willie Wagtail
White-faced Heron
Black Swan
Osprey
Carnaby's Black Cockatoo
Laughing Kookaburra

AQUATIC MAMMALS
Bottlenose Dolphin
Bull Shark
Australian Sea Lion
 
Rizz Carlton said:
Growing up in one of the largest cities in the world (Jakarta) often mean you didn't see a lot wild animals around. Though from my experience, Eurasian tree-sparrow are somewhat abundant and more rarely zebra dove and Javan myna are found. House geckos are everywhere and most often you saw Asian water monitors near small rivers. Amphibians that I have seen in Jakarta are Polypedates leucomystax and Duttaphrynus melanostictus. Fishes that I've saw are generally invasive species like mosquitofish and some tilapias. For mammals, suprisingly, the lesser short-nosed fruit bats are very common even around my neighbourhood. Plantain squirrels are also somewhat common, while I've only saw an young Asian palm civet once for a brief time until it dissappear quickly into the bushes around two years ago.
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I recently seen some birds that I've rarely if ever seen before in my hometown, like the sooty-headed bulbul, spotted dove, and even some scaly-breasted munia. I even saw one of those bulbul just outside of my home, which I think should be the first time I saw one near me. It seems like Jakarta is slowly growing in term of wildlife.
 
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