Cleveland lines up along Lake Erie, and the lakefront is a migration magnet. Warblers and sparrows pile into the shoreline parks each spring, walleye and steelhead run the rivers, and bald eagles have returned to nest in the Cuyahoga Valley just south. The Metroparks ring the city with real forest, holding white-tailed deer, coyotes, and barred owls, and the lake keeps rafts of ducks offshore all winter.
Everything below is pulled live from recent research-grade observations near Cleveland. Browse by group, explore the map, and identify what you find with Huck.
60,056
recent observations
30
species listed
8
birds
8
insects & arthropods
7
plants
Naturalists have logged 60,056 research-grade observations across the 30 most-recorded species near Cleveland. The most frequently seen is the White-tailed Deer, with 3,378 recorded sightings.
Birds account for the largest share of what gets recorded there (8 of the species listed here), followed by insects & arthropods (8).