Counties in North Carolina
Species in North Carolina
Common Species in North Carolina
Showing 15 most frequently observed species out of 36 total documented species.
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Bald Eagle
Ardea herodias
Great Blue Heron
Pandion haliaetus
osprey
Larus delawarensis
Ring-billed Gull
Cathartes aura
Turkey Vulture
Taxodium distichum
bald-cypress
Anolis carolinensis
Green anole
Trachemys scripta
slider turtle, red-eared terrapin, red-eared slider
Castor canadensis
Canadian beaver
Acris crepitans
Eastern Cricket Frog
Perca flavescens
Lake Perch
Pyganodon grandis
Giant Floater Mussel
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Spinybacked orbweaver
Platalea ajaja
Roseate Spoonbill
Uresiphita reversalis
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Found 100 distinct counties:
- Alamance County
- Alexander County
- Alleghany County
- Anson County
- Ashe County
- Avery County
- Beaufort County
- Bertie County
- Bladen County
- Brunswick County
- Buncombe County
- Burke County
- Cabarrus County
- Caldwell County
- Camden County
- Carteret County
- Caswell County
- Catawba County
- Chatham County
- Cherokee County
- Chowan County
- Clay County
- Cleveland County
- Columbus County
- Craven County
- Cumberland County
- Currituck County
- Dare County
- Davidson County
- Davie County
- Duplin County
- Durham County
- Edgecombe County
- Forsyth County
- Franklin County
- Gaston County
- Gates County
- Graham County
- Granville County
- Greene County
- Guilford County
- Halifax County
- Harnett County
- Haywood County
- Henderson County
- Hertford County
- Hoke County
- Hyde County
- Iredell County
- Jackson County
- Johnston County
- Jones County
- Lee County
- Lenoir County
- Lincoln County
- MacOn County
- Madison County
- Martin County
- McDowell County
- Mecklenburg County
- Mitchell County
- Montgomery County
- Moore County
- Nash County
- New Hanover County
- Northampton County
- Onslow County
- Orange County
- Pamlico County
- Pasquotank County
- Pender County
- Perquimans County
- Person County
- Pitt County
- Polk County
- Randolph County
- Richmond County
- Robeson County
- Rockingham County
- Rowan County
- Rutherford County
- Sampson County
- Scotland County
- Stanly County
- Stokes County
- Surry County
- Swain County
- Transylvania County
- Tyrrell County
- Union County
- Vance County
- Wake County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Watauga County
- Wayne County
- Wilkes County
- Wilson County
- Yadkin County
- Yancey County