Animals

Today, Fort Vancouver is located in the heart of the community and surrounded by many commercial, industrial, residential, and aviation developments.

The widespread expansion of the activities that the Hudson's Bay Company started more than 180 years ago has left little room for native wildlife, but some species persist in this highly altered environment.

Given the urbanized nature of the habitat of the park, terrestrial habitat for wildlife is somewhat limited. The trees, meadows, orchard, garden, and waterfront areas each provide limited habitat for wildlife generally passing through the area of the park.

Below, see lists of animals identified as present or probably present at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site by the National Park Service's NPSpecies database. At the bottom of this page, find information on birds and birding at Fort Vancouver.

 

Mammals

Common Name	Scientific Name	Occurrence
American Beaver	Castor canadensis	Present
American Mink	Neovison vison	Probably Present
American Shrew Mole, Gibb's shrew mole, least shrew mole, Shrew-mole	Neurotrichus gibbsii	Probably Present
Big Brown Bat	Eptesicus fuscus	Present
Brown Rat, Norway Rat	Rattus norvegicus	Probably Present
Coast Mole, Pacific Mole, red-footed mole	Scapanus orarius	Probably Present
Columbian black-tailed deer	Odocoileus hemionus	Present
Common Muskrat, Muskbeaver, Muskrat	Ondatra zibethicus	Probably Present
Common raccoon, northern raccoon, Raccoon	Procyon lotor	Present
Coronation Island vole, Long-tailed Vole	Microtus longicaudus	Probably Present
Coyote	Canis latrans	Present
Coypu, nutria	Myocastor coypus	Probably Present
Creeping Vole	Microtus oregoni	Present
Deer Mouse, North American Deermouse	Peromyscus maniculatus	Present
Eastern cottontail	Sylvilagus floridanus	Present
Eastern Gray Squirrel, gray squirrel	Sciurus carolinensis	Present
House Mouse	Mus musculus	Present
Little brown bat, little brown myotis, Little Brown Myotis	Myotis lucifugus	Present
Long-tailed Weasel	Mustela frenata	Probably Present
Pacific Jumping Mouse	Zapus trinotatus	Probably Present
Red Fox	Vulpes vulpes	Probably Present
Striped Skunk	Mephitis mephitis	Probably Present
Townsend's Vole	Microtus townsendii	Present
Vagrant shrew	Sorex vagrans	Present
Virginia Opossum	Didelphis virginiana	Probably Present
Western Spotted Skunk	Spilogale gracilis	Probably Present

 

Reptiles & Amphibians

Common Name	Scientific Name	Occurrence
Common Garter Snake	Thamnophis sirtalis	Present
Long-toed salamander	Ambystoma macrodactylum	Present
Northern Pacific Treefrog, Pacific Chorus Frog, Pacific Treefrog	Pseudacris regilla	Present

 

Bees

Common Name	Scientific Name	Occurrence
White-shouldered bumble bee	Bombus appositus	Present
California bumble bee	Bombus californicus	Present
Obscure bumble bee	Bombus caliginosus	Present
Brown-belted bumble bee	Bombus griseocollis	Present
Nevada bumble bee	Bombus nevadensis	Present
Red-belted bumble bee	Bombus rufocinctus	Present
Vosnesensky bumble bee, yellow-faced bumble bee	Bombus vosnesenskii	Present