Mecklenburg County |
| sciName | comName | date | observer | number | comments | photo_link | obsType |
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| Lontra canadensis | North American River Otter | 2020-05-04 | Erin Fisher | 1 | Tail shape, paws, body structure - Near the turn into Sonoma Valley rd off Mount Holly rd | photo | 02_Photo |
| Lontra canadensis | North American River Otter | 2020-02-29 | Tim Wolfe | 1 | I have watched this otter numerous times and walked up on it sleeping yesterday afternoon. I have discovered 5 roadkills in Charlotte city limits over the past several years. - Cora St. off of Oakdale Rd. In Charlotte. Private pond. | photo | 02_Photo |
| Lontra canadensis | North American River Otter | 2017-07-01 | Steven Cole | 4 | Three otters swam downstream and then back up in Little Sugar Creek near the Lynnwood Drive section of the greenway. We saw a lone otter 20 meters further downstream. | photo | 02_Photo |
| Lontra canadensis | North American River Otter | 2017-06-14 | Betty Thomas | 4 | There were four otters. I saw them pop-up in Diary Branch Creek. After swimming around (frolicking)awhile and attracting attention from people on the bridge in the park, they climbed back over to Little Sugar Creek and swam upstream. I saw them around dusk on a Wednesday evening. - Diary Branch Creek and Little Sugar Creek in Freedom Park, Charlotte, North Carolina | photo | 02_Photo |
| Lontra canadensis | North American River Otter | 2012-05-12 | Don Seriff | 1 | Infrared-triggered camera survey photo. River otters were released near this site in the mid-1990's but also moved into the county from the east on their own. Inner city records were not uncomon in the past decade but reports from within the city limits have declined over the past 5 years. Record submitted by Don Seriff - Mecklenburg County Conservation Science Office. - Cowans Ford Wildlife Refuge, Meckelnburg County, NC | photo | 02_Photo |
