Wildlife near Winston-Salem, NC
Winston-Salem sits in the North Carolina piedmont where the forest rolls up to the Blue Ridge foothills. White-tailed deer and gray squirrels are everywhere, northern cardinals and Carolina wrens hold the yards, and Salem Lake and the Yadkin River nearby draw great blue herons, ospreys, and wood ducks. Barred owls and pileated woodpeckers call from the wooded parks, and beavers work the creeks.
Everything below is pulled live from recent research-grade observations near Winston-Salem. Browse by group, explore the map, and identify what you find with Huck.
Naturalists have logged 18,181 research-grade observations across the 30 most-recorded species near Winston-Salem. The most frequently seen is the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, with 988 recorded sightings.
Birds account for the largest share of what gets recorded there (8 of the species listed here), followed by insects & arthropods (7).
Rarer finds confirmed near Winston-Salem include Spotted Wintergreen - uncommon enough that a sighting is worth logging.
Most-observed species near Winston-Salem
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