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The bowfin (Amia calva) is a ray-finned fish native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique.It is regarded as a relict, being one of only two surviving species of the Halecomorphi, a group of fish that first appeared during the Early Triassic, around 250 million years ago.
The Illinois River is an important part of the Great Loop, the circumnavigation of Eastern North America by water. The City of Peoria is developing a long-term plan to reduce combined sewer overflows to the Illinois River, as required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
The river frog is a very large species with adults commonly between 7 and 13 cm (3 and 5 in) in length. The skin is rough and wrinkled but there are no dorso-lateral ridges as there are in the green frog (Lithobates clamitans). The back is some shade of dark green or blackish-green and the belly is dark grey, or blackish with pale wavy lines ...
The Illinois chorus frogs' preferred habitat in Arkansas includes the patch of sandy wetland soil surrounding Stuttgart, Arkansas where rice is grown. However, the invention of laser land-levelling , and its use by rice paddy operators, has eliminated 61% of the subspecies' range in this southern state.
A great blue heron wades on the South Branch Kishwaukee River in DeKalb, Illinois, September 2006. The Kishwaukee River, locally known as simply The Kish, is a 63.4-mile-long (102.0 km) [2] river in the U.S. state of Illinois. [3] It is a tributary of the Rock River [4] and its name derives from the Potawatomi word for "river of the sycamore". [5]
Edwards River; Elm River; Embarras River (Illinois) Fox River (Illinois River tributary), northern Illinois; Fox River (Little Wabash tributary), southern Illinois; Galena River; Grand Calumet River; Green River; Henderson Creek; Hickory Creek; Illinois River; Indian Creek; Iroquois River; Jackson Creek; Kankakee River; Kaskaskia River ...
The fauna of Illinois include a wide variety of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and insects (not listed). The state bird is the Northern cardinal. The state insect is the monarch butterfly. The state animal is the white-tailed deer. The state fish is the bluegill. The state fossil is the tully monster.
There is evidence that the Fox River valley near Silver Springs was populated by indigenous people near the end of the last ice age, 10–14,000 years ago. [1] The original 1,250 acres (510 ha) tract of land that became Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area was purchased by the state of Illinois in 1969, and has been open since January of that year.