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Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Nature Preserves List of Endangered, Threatened & Rare Species by County
State Endangered: Any animal species whose prospects for survival or recruitment within the state are in immediate jeopardy and are in danger of disappearing from the state. This includes all species listed as endangered or threatened by the federal government that occur in Indiana.
Indiana is home to 30 federally listed endangered, threatened, or candidate species, including the Indiana bat, piping plover, copperbelly water snake, Karner blue butterfly, fanshell mussel, and eastern prairie fringed orchid.
STATE ENDANGERED: Any animal species whose prospects for survival or recruitment within the state are in immediate jeopardy and are in danger of disappearing from the state. This includes all species classified as endangered by the federal government that occur in Indiana.
Indiana is home to a variety of plants and animals that bolster the biodiversity of the state. But due to changes in habitats and the spread of disease, some of these species become imperiled...
Animals and Species that are slowly disappearing across the state of Indiana. Gray Bat. Status: ENDANGERED. Habitat: Lives in caves year round. Gray bats are often found near rivers and lakes. History: Gray Bats can be as long as 4 inches in length. Gray Bats are found in the eastern part of the United States.
More than 150 creatures — including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and mollusks — are now listed in the “endangered” or “special concern” categories for Indiana, according to the Indiana Division of Fish and Wildlife list. But who decides which animals make the cut — and how?
State Endangered: Any animal species whose prospects for survival or recruitment within the state are in immediate jeopardy and are in danger of disappearing from the state. This includes all species classified as endangered or threatened by the federal government that occur in Indiana.
A Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) is one that is listed by the Indiana DNR as endangered or special concern. Endangered species are any animal species whose prospects for survival or recruitment within the state are in immediate jeopardy and are in danger of disappearing from the state.
Rare and endangered birds like the fulvous whistling duck, American golden plover, black-neck stilt, whooping crane, and roseate spoonbill, the first ever spotted in Indiana, have all made Least Tern Island their home.