Observations about members of Order Rodentia (Class Mammalia, Phylum Chordata, Kingdom Animalia)
that live on Mount Desert Island

(information compiled by the Champlain Project)


Artiodactyla - even-toed ungulates order

Mount Desert Island is home to 2 species in 2 genera in 1 family. Click on a link below or scroll down for more information.
   Cervidae (2 genera, 2 species)
      Odocoileus virginianus - white-tailed deer
      Alces alces - moose

Cervidae

Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer):These two deer were feeding within easy sight of the access road to the Seawall picnic area. In fact, this picture was taken from a car on that road. White-tailed deer scat is distinctive, usually with a small depression in one end of each pellet.

And this deer was one of four seen near the base of a hill just north of the "Cadillac Mountain Entrance" (from Route 233) to the park loop road in Bar Harbor.

Thank you to the following champlainers for their observations:
   TFV = Thomas F. Vining