Living With Wildlife

Nature's Neighbors

This section provides problem-solving advice and ways you can make your yard and home less attractive to wild animals.

For more information about these animals, including what they eat and where they live in the forest preserves, visit our main wildlife page.

Found an Injured Animal?

If you find a wild animal that looks injured or orphaned, leave it alone and call the Forest Preserve District's Willowbrook Wildlife Center at 630-942-6200. Recordings offer general advice when the center is closed.

Or visit the wildlife rescue advice page.

 

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Birds
Fish
Frogs, Turtles, Snakes & More
Insects, Spiders, Crayfish & More
Mammals
Mussels & Snails

Living With Wildlife
    Bats
    Beavers
    Chipmunks & Ground Squirrels
    Coyotes
    Eastern Cottontails
    Mallards & Geese
    Opossums
    Raccoons
    Skunks
    Songbirds
    Tree Squirrels
    White-Tailed Deer
    Woodchucks
    Woodpeckers 


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