What kinds of wildlife might be seen at the Tacoma Nature Center? Below are some of the most common ones. You can also download a checklist to use when you are visiting, or pick one up inside the Nature Center before you head out on a walk. Remember, you will have the best wildlife viewing when you take a little time, keep noise to a mimimum and use all of your senses.

And please remember, the Tacoma Nature Center is a nature preserve. Leave pets and bicycles at home when you visit, take only pictures and memories, and do not feed the wildlife. Smoking is prohibited in all public areas within the City of Tacoma.

If you want to see what has been sighted lately at the park, click on any of the maps below. When you visit, come inside the Nature Center and tell us what you see in the park. Your wildlife sighting information could end up on a map too!

Recent Wildlife Sightings

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Mammals
Red fox	Raccoon	Eastern Cottontail
Eastern gray squirrel	Townsend's chipmunk	Black-tailed deer
Reptiles & Amphibians
Pacific tree frog (chorus frog)	Western painted turtle	Common garter snake
Birds
Canada goose	Mallard duck	Wood duck
Northern flicker	Downy woodpecker	Violet-green swallow
American crow	Stellar's jay	Black-capped chickadee
Red-breasted nuthatch	Bewick's wren	American robin
Red-winged blackbird	Spotted towhee	Dark-eyed junco