Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Species List

[David Peden]

I'm in Chicago for the next few days, so I took the time to do a species list for the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum! It's a smaller museum in Lincoln Park just north of the Lincoln Park Zoo, focusing on ecology and conservation. In addition to some great interactive exhibits, they have a nice little collection of local species, mostly herps and fish, as well as a lovely butterfly habitat, which is perfect for cold winter days like today. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

River Works

Spotted turtle
Gray tree frog
Green tree frog
Channel catfish
Round goby
Central stoneroller
Black spotted topminnow
Orangethroat darter

Mysteries of the Marsh

Eastern spiny softshell turtle
Common musk turtle
Eastern foxsnake
Plains hognose snake
Alligator snapping turtle
Spotfin shiner
Blanding’s turtle
False map turtle
Madagascar hissing cockroach
Mississippi mud turtle
Chicago garter snake
Painted turtle
Eastern tiger salamander
Spotted salamander
Desert box turtle
Green tree frog
Dusky salamander
American toad
Three toed box turtle
Gray tree frog
Eastern box turtle
American bullfrog
Giant water bug
Ferocious water bug
Ornate box turtle
Golden shiner
Common mudpuppy
Gray ratsnake
Northern leopard frog

Judy Istock Butterfly Haven
Common morpho
Rice paper butterfly
Clipper
Malay cruiser
Ruby-spotted swallowtail
Thoas swallowtail
Great yellow mormon
Leopard lacewing
Forest queen
Common green birdwing
Malachite
Rusty-tipped page
Great orange-tip
Great eggfly
Chocolate pansy
Jazzy leafwing
Common postman
Doris longwing
Sara longwing
Ismenius tiger longwing
Tiger longwing
False zebra longwing
Blue and white longwing
Red rim butterfly
Orange emigrant
Magnificent owl
Atlas moth
European goldfinch
Gold-breasted waxbill
Orange-cheeked waxbill
Red-eared waxbill
Yellow-legged honeycreeper
Button quail
Violaceous euphonia
Diamond dove

 

[birdsandbats]

European Goldfinch is pretty cool, that's one they didn't have last time I was here.