Banana Slug – Ariolimax columbianus
Loves wet and very shady areas.
Appearance is smooth and yellow, sometimes spotted.
Active during the day and night time.
Eats living and decaying leaves, roots, mushrooms, fruit, seeds, bulbs, lichen, algae, animal droppings, and dead animals.

Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura
Loves flying high in dry open areas and along roadsides.
Appearance is brown-black color with un-feathered red head and yellow feet.
Eats dead animals and rotting meat.

Steller’s Jay - Cyanocitta stelleri 
Loves dense forest, but can be seen scavenging in open areas.
Makes nests of twigs and mud in coniferous trees.
Appearance is bright blue with a black crest, throat, and upper breast. 
Active during the daytime.
Eats berries, nuts, acorns, wild bees, wasps, eggs, and nestlings of small birds.

Monarch Butterfly - Danaus plexippus
Loves open meadows, but will winter under dense tree cover.
Appearance is large with orange and black wings.
Eats the larvae that feed on milkweeds. The adults forage for flower nectar.
They migrate between Mexico and California.

Pacific Giant Salamander – Diacamtodon ensatus
Loves streams and damp forests.
Appearance is brown on black, gray, or purple, with white speckled sides that are around 30 cm in length.
Active mainly at night.
Eats snakes, small rodents, insects, crustaceans, and banana slugs.

Sonoma Chipmunk – Eutamis sonoma
Loves to feed in dense forest. Sleeps in burrows or nests in tree cavities.
Appearance is reddish-brown colored with stripes down back and tail.
Active during the day.
Eats seeds, nuts, flower buds, green plants, fruit, and insects.

Bobcat – Felis rufus 
Loves open areas, but can be seen in deep forest or alongside streams. Sleeps in a den of dry leaves, in a hollow log, or under a rock ledge or fallen tree. 
Appearance is gray-brown to reddish color, bobbed tail.
Active at night and daytime.
Eats rabbits, mice, squirrels, wood rats, and small weak deer.

Water Strider – Geris remigis
Loves skimming along the surface of slow moving ponds and streams.
Appearance is long and slender black body.
Eats small insects.

Convergent Ladybugs - Hippodamia convergens
Loves dense forests, fields, and open grasslands.
Appearance is orange with black dots.
Eats aphids and pollen.
Born in the inland valleys where they feast on aphids and pollen. In the summer, they migrate to the coast to clump together for protection and to mate. In the late winter, they return to the inland valleys to lay eggs and die. 

Dusky-Footed Woodrat – Neotoma fuscipes
Loves shady forest close to streams and water.
Appearance is gray colored with tints of blue and pink.
Active at nighttime.
Eats green plants, nuts, seeds, fruit, and mushrooms.

Black-Tailed Deer - Odocoileus hemionus columbianus
Loves open areas, but can be seen in deep forest or alongside streams.
Appearance is brown or gray with a white tail that has a black stripe.
Active mainly at dawn and dusk. 
Eats redwood sorrel, acorns, and shrubs.

Coho Salmon – Oncorhynchus kisutch
Loves streams and oceans.
Appearance is silver with black spots and sometimes a bright red underside.
Eats aquatic invertebrates, insects, larvae, and decaying animals.
Born in a river, then travels to the ocean where they live their adult lives. They come back to the river they were born in to lay their eggs and die. They are an endangered species.

Raccoon – Procyon lotor
Loves to feed alongside streams, but will wander from water. Sleeps in hollow logs, trees, and ground burrows.
Appearance is salt and pepper coloring, masked face. 
Active mainly at night.
Eats fruits, nuts, grains, insects, frogs, fish, crayfish, and bird eggs.

Western Gray Squirrel – Sciurus griseus
Loves to feed in the dense forest or open areas. Sleeps in nests of sticks, leaves and shredded bark in tree cavities or on branches.
Appearance is large and gray with a bushy tail.
Active in the morning.
Eats mushrooms, acorns, and fir seeds.

Northern Spotted Owl – Strix occidentalis
Loves thickly wooded canyons and old growth redwood forests.
Appearance is large dark eyes, white spots on body and underparts.
Active at nighttime.
Eats wood rats, rabbits, deer mice, red tree voles, and gophers.
It is an endangered species.

Gray Fox – Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Loves hunting in the forest, open areas, or along creeks and rivers.
Appearance is predominantly gray fur with patches of red.
Active at nighttime.
Eats rabbits, small rodents, birds, fruit and vegetation.
One of the few canines who can climb trees.