Minneapolis is a city of lakes stitched together by the Mississippi, and the water shapes everything. Common loons turn up on the bigger lakes, bald eagles nest along the river gorge right in the city, and the chain of lakes fills with wood ducks, herons, and migrating waterfowl. White-tailed deer and red foxes work the parkways, and in winter the open river below Saint Anthony Falls holds goldeneyes and the eagles that hunt them.
Everything below is pulled live from recent research-grade observations near Minneapolis. Browse by group, explore the map, and identify what you find with Huck.
124,749
recent observations
30
species listed
12
birds
8
insects & arthropods
5
plants
Naturalists have logged 124,749 research-grade observations across the 30 most-recorded species near Minneapolis. The most frequently seen is the Common Eastern Bumble Bee, with 14,122 recorded sightings.
Birds account for the largest share of what gets recorded there (12 of the species listed here), followed by insects & arthropods (8).