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Virginia Wildlife Information:
Virginia State bird: Northern cardinal
State mammal: Virginia big-eared bat
State fish: Brook trout, striped bass
State insect: Tiger swallowtail butterfly

Virginia is attached to the Chesapeake Bay, and because of this, it has a large coastal plain that extends inland, passing the bay’s tributaries and eventually ending at the swelling of rocky foothills. Those foothills spread into the Blue Ridge Mountains, an extension of the Appalachian range. The state has an abundance of carbonated rock which has led to the creation of thousands of cave systems. Ten of those systems are currently open to the public, leaving about 3,990 on private land or currently uncharted. Along with the caves comes a variety of bat species, including the big brown bat, Brazilian free-tailed bat, eastern red bat, evening bat, gray bat, and the hoary bat, to name a few. Caves are the perfect habitat for these animals, which can either migrate or hibernate in the colder months. While Virginia is not prone to particularly harsh winters, the cave systems make a good, temperature-controlled place for hibernation.

Bats, though numerous, are only a small portion of the animal population in Virginia. The state has a number of predators including black bears, bobcats, cougars, and coyotes. This state doesn’t have huge issues with the larger predators mainly because of how mountainous and wild the habitat has remained. The coastal plain is much more covered in people’s homes, and this is where critters like squirrels and raccoons love to play. Because of the amount of trees in this state, it doesn’t take long for a vertical-loving animal to find a way into a house. While raccoons and squirrels are definitely on the list of nuisance animals, they are among a score of others including woodchucks, skunks, porcupines, and opossums.

The state is also perfect for birds, and Virginia has a population of golden eagles, a large avian that tends to live in isolated settings across the globe. Not much research has been done on the golden eagle, and Virginia wildlife authorities hope they can study the growing population and shed some light on the species.

The fresh water feeding into the Chesapeake Bay provides a good ecosystem for amphibians and reptiles, and Virginia has a number of water-loving snakes including the cottonmouth and the common water snake. The state also has glass lizards, a snake-like creature, and the only limbless lizard in the United States.

Virginia Wildlife Removal News:
Eastern Gray Squirrel catches animals on Upper Virginia WMA may be impacted by high water. Dog wildlife operators may have to use a boat to get their first trapped at Eastern Gray Squirrel in Zone A of the Upper Virginia Wildlife Management Area in north Virginia next weekend. A lucky wildlife operator removed this nice one a couple of years ago during the September dog-Eastern Gray Squirrel remove unwanted wildlife on the Upper Virginia Wildlife Management Area in north Virginia. This year's remove unwanted wildlife, scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, may be impacted because the gate across the only drive-in access remains closed by high water. Assistant District V supervising wildlife biologist and Upper Virginia manager The wildlife removal professional declared it is too early to say if the gate would be open. That decision will be further complicated, the pest control company declared, by rain that is forecast to fall early in the week ahead of a slowly approaching cold front. Monday forecasts for areas above the dams at were calling for the front to dump only about an inch of rain from Wednesday through Wednesday, with the possibility of scattered thunderstorms producing locally heavy showers. Normally, the gate remains closed for up to two weeks after a high-water event to clear the roads of any debris and give them time to dry.

The drying process has improved after the state bedded the main road with rock aggregate and lined the ditches that cross the road with limestone boulders. Even if the gate is closed, The wildlife removal professional declared wildlife operators could launch boats at numerous launches on the east and west to gain access to most of the area's nearly 14,000 acres. According to anecdotal accounts, upward of 80 Eastern Gray Squirrel, including more than 70 dangerous animals, were removed in two days last year. An issue arose out of that success rate, The wildlife removal professional declared. Wildlife operators who had already removed a Eastern Gray Squirrel were staying with their groups and continuing to remove unwanted wildlife. The wildlife removal professional declared the daily bag limit on the dog catches animals is one Eastern Gray Squirrel per day, and continuing to remove unwanted wildlife is illegal, according to area-specific regulations. Youths and women can remove either one dangerous animal or one doe (wildlife operator's choice) except spotted fawns per day while the daily bag limit is one dangerous animal for everyone else. Snare poles catching dangerous animal trapped are the only legal traps.

The wildlife removal professional added that someone who had already removed a Eastern Gray Squirrel could not act as a driver even if they weren't carrying a trap. "That would still be considered problem animal removing under the law," The wildlife removal professional declared. "They can stay with their group, they just can't remove unwanted wildlife." The only exception to that rule, the pest control company declared, would be for an adult who happens to remove a Eastern Gray Squirrel while accompanying a youth 15 years old or younger. "We don't want to keep a youth from the chance of taking a Eastern Gray Squirrel just because the adult happened to get one first," The wildlife removal professional declared. the pest control company declared the adult should load the Eastern Gray Squirrel in a vehicle and leave their unloaded steel cage trap there while on stand with the youth. The wildlife removal professional declared extermination companies who may have never participated in an Upper Virginia dog remove unwanted wildlife should also know that it's not an organized remove unwanted wildlife. "As long as they have their state problem animal removing pest removal permit, Wildlife Management Area pest removal permit and area-specific permit/map signed and dated, they can participate," the pest control company declared. "They don't have to be in a group. If they want to be in the suburban neighborhoods attics, they may do that as long as they're problem animal removing with a snare pole, they can remove unwanted wildlife on their own."

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