What type of animals live around the Mississippi river?

Mammals:

- White-tailed deer

- Raccoons

- Opossums

- Beavers

- Muskrats

- River otters

- Mink

- Bobcats

- Gray wolves

- Red foxes

Birds:

- Great blue herons

- Bald eagles

- Osprey

- Wild turkeys

- Mallards

- Wood ducks

- Canada geese

- Snow geese

- Sandhill cranes

- Whooping cranes

Reptiles:

- Alligators

- Crocodiles

- Snakes (including cottonmouths, copperheads, and rattlesnakes)

- Turtles (including snapping turtles, painted turtles, and red-eared slider turtles)

Amphibians:

- Frogs (including bullfrogs, leopard frogs, and green frogs)

- Toads (including American toads and Fowler's toads)

- Salamanders (including tiger salamanders and mudpuppies)

Fish:

- Largemouth bass

- Smallmouth bass

- Spotted bass

- White bass

- Yellow bass

- Crappie

- Sunfish

- Catfish (including blue catfish, channel catfish, and flathead catfish)

- Bullhead catfish

- Walleye

- Sauger

- Yellow perch

- White perch

- Striped bass

- Hybrid striped bass

- Muskellunge

- Northern pike

- Tiger muskie