Animals that Live in Lakes

Lakes are freshwater habitats that are formed when a depression in the earth is filled with water. These water bodies also provide a home to species like fish, snakes, frogs, ducks, etc. The animals, in turn, help keep lakes clean by feeding on algae and excessive vegetation, preventing the water from becoming stagnant.

List of Animals that live in Lakes

Mammals

• American Mink
• Eurasian Beaver
• European Mink
• European Otter
• North American Beaver
• North American River Otter
• West African Manatee

Birds

• African Black Duck
• African Pygmy-Goose
• Agami Heron
• American Bittern
• American Black Duck
• American Flamingo
• American White-winged Scoter
• American Wigeon
• Andean Flamingo
• Andean Teal
• Ascension Night Heron
• Asian White-Winged Scoter
• Auckland Islands Teal
• Australasian Bittern
• Australasian Grebe
• Australasian Shoveler
• Australian Shelduck
• Australian Wood Duck
• Baer’s Pochard
• Baikal Teal
• Bare-throated Tiger Heron
• Barrow’s Goldeneye
• Bermuda Night Heron
• Black Bittern
• Black Heron
• Black Scoter
• Black-backed Bittern
• Black-Bellied Whistling Duck
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-headed Duck
• Black-headed Heron
• Blue Duck
• Blue-billed Duck
• Blue-winged Goose
• Blue-winged Teal
• Boat-billed Heron
• Brazilian Merganser
• Brazilian Teal
• Brown Teal
• Bufflehead
• Campbell Islands Teal
• Canvasback
• Cape Shoveler
• Cape Teal
• Capped Heron
• Chestnut Teal
• Chilean Flamingo
• Chiloe Wigeon
• Chinese Egret
• Chinese Pond Heron
• Cinnamon Bittern
• Cinnamon Teal
• Cocoi Heron
• Comb Duck
• Common Eider
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Merganser
• Common Pochard
• Common Scoter
• Common Shelduck
• Common Teal
• Cotton Pygmy-goose
• Crested Duck
• Crested Shelduck
• Dimorphic Egret
• Dwarf Bittern
• Eastern Cattle Egret
• Eastern Spot-billed Duck
• Eaton’s Pintail
• Egyptian Goose
• Eurasian Bittern
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Falcated Duck
• Falkland Steamerduck
• Fasciated Tiger Heron
• Ferruginous Duck
• Flightless Steamerduck
• Flying Steamerduck
• Forest Bittern
• Freckled Duck
• Fulvous Whistling-duck
• Gadwall
• Garganey
• Goliath Heron
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Great-billed Heron
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Scaup
• Green Heron
• Green Pygmy-goose
• Grey Heron
• Grey Teal
• Hardhead
• Harlequin Duck
• Hartlaub’s Duck
• Hawaiian Duck
• Hooded Merganser
• Hottentot Teal
• Humblot’s Heron
• Indian Pond Heron
• Intermediate Egret
• James’s Flamingo
• Japanese Night Heron
• Javan Pond Heron
• Kelp Goose
• King Eider
• Lake Duck
• Lava Heron
• Laysan Duck
• Least Bittern
• Lesser Flamingo
• Lesser Scaup
• Lesser Whistling-duck
• Little Bittern
• Little Blue Heron
• Little Egret
• Long-tailed Duck
• Maccoa Duck
• Madagascar Pochard
• Madagascar Teal
• Malagasy Pond Heron
• Malayan Night Heron
• Mallard
• Mandarin Duck
• Marbled Teal
• Masked Duck
• Mauritius Night Heron
• Meller’s Duck
• Mottled Duck
• Muscovy Duck
• Musk Duck
• Nankeen Night Heron
• New Zealand Bittern
• New Zealand Scaup
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Shoveler
• Orinoco Goose
• Osprey
• Pacific Black Duck
• Pacific Reef Heron
• Paradise Shelduck
• Philippine Duck
• Pied Heron
• Pink-eared Duck
• Pink-headed Duck
• Pinnated Bittern
• Plumed Whistling-duck
• Puna Teal
• Purple Heron
• Radjah Shelduck
• Red Shoveler
• Red-billed Duck
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red-crested Pochard
• Reddish Egret
• Redhead
• Reunion Night Heron
• Ringed Teal
• Ring-necked Duck
• Rodrigues Night Heron
• Rosy-billed Pochard
• Ruddy Duck
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Rufescent Tiger Heron
• Rufous-bellied Heron
• Salvadori’s Teal
• Scaly-sided Merganser
• Silver Teal
• Slaty Egret
• Smew
• Snow Goose
• Snowy Egret
• South African Shelduck
• Southern Pochard
• Spectacled Duck
• Spectacled Eider
• Spotted Whistling-duck
• Squacco Heron
• Steller’s Eider
• Striated Heron
• Stripe-backed Bittern
• Sunda Teal
• Surf Scoter
• Torrent Duck
• Tricolored Heron
• Tufted Duck
• Tundra Swan
• Velvet Scoter
• Von Schrenck’s Bittern
• Wandering Whistling-duck
• West Indian Whistling-duck
• Western Cattle Egret
• Western Reef Heron
• Western Spot-billed Duck
• Whistling Heron
• White-backed Duck
• White-backed Night Heron
• White-bellied Heron
• White-cheeked Pintail
• White-crested Tiger Heron
• White-eared Night Heron
• White-faced Heron
• White-faced Whistling-duck
• White-headed Duck
• White-headed Steamerduck
• White-necked Heron
• White-Winged Duck
• Wood Duck
• Yellow Bittern
• Yellow-billed Duck
• Yellow-billed Pintail
• Yellow-billed Teal
• Yellow-crowned Night Heron
• Zigzag Heron

Reptiles

• American Alligator
• Banded Water Snake
• Black Caiman
• Blotched Water Snake
• Brazos Water Snake
• Brown Water Snake
• Chinese Alligator
• Common Snapping Turtle
• Common Water Snake
• Concho Water Snake
• Copperbelly Water Snake
• Cottonmouth Snake
• Diamondback Water Snake
• Florida Green Water Snake
• Green Water Snake
• Painted Turtle
• Plainbelly Water Snake
• Salt Marsh Snake

Amphibians

• Albina Surinam Toad
• American Bullfrog
• American Green Tree Frog
• American Toad
• Apennine Yellow-bellied Toad
• Archey’s Frog
• Argentine Horned Frog
• Arrabal’s Surinam Toad
• Australian Green Tree Frog
• Axolotl
• Barking Tree Frog
• Boreal Chorus Frog
• Bornean Flat-headed Frog
• Cameroon Clawed Frog
• Cane Toad
• Carvalho’s Surinam Toad
• Columbia Spotted Frog
• Common Frog
• Common Midwife Toad
• Common Painted Frog
• Cope’s Gray Tree Frog
• Corsican Painted Frog
• Couch’s Spadefoot
• Cuban Tree Frog
• Eastern Dwarf Clawed Frog
• Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad
• European Fire-bellied Toad
• European Toad
• Fowler’s Toad
• Gaboon Dwarf Clawed Frog
• Golden Poison Dart Frog
• Gopher Frog
• Gray Tree Frog
• Great Crested Newt
• Green Frog
• Green-and-golden Bell Frog
• Hamilton’s Frog
• Hellbender
• Hochstetter’s Frog
• Hubei Firebelly Toad
• Hula Painted Frog
• Iberian Midwife Toad
• Lake Zwai Shovelnose Frog
• Majorcan Midwife Toad
• Maud Island Frog
• Merlin’s Dwarf Gray Frog
• Mexican Burrowing Toad
• Moroccan Midwife Toad
• Moroccan Painted Frog
• Myers’ Surinam Toad
• New Mexico Spadefoot Toad
• Northern Cricket Frog
• Northern Leopard Frog
• Northern Red-legged Frog
• Oregon Spotted Frog
• Oriental Fire-bellied Toad
• Pacific Tree Frog
• Philippine Flat-headed Frog
• Pickerel Frog
• Pig Frog
• Red-eyed Tree Frog
• Sabana Surinam Toad
• Siren
• Southern Cricket Frog
• Southern Leopard Frog
• Southern Midwife Toad
• Southern Toad
• Spanish Painted Frog
• Spring Peeper
• Squirrel Tree Frog
• Surinam Toad
• Tyrrhenian Painted Frog
• Upland Chorus Frog
• Utinga Surinam Toad
• Volcano Clawed Frog
• West Iberian Painted Frog
• Western Dwarf Clawed Frog
• Western Toad
• Wood Frog
• Yellow-bellied Toad
• Yunnan Firebelly Toad
• Zaire Dwarf Clawed Frog

Fish

• Alewife
• Atlantic Salmon
• Black Bullhead
• Black Crappie
• Bluegill
• Brook Trout
• Brown Trout
• Burbot
• Channel Catfish
• Coho Salmon
• Common Carp
• Deepwater Sculpin
• Fathead Minnow
• Flathead Catfish
• Gizzard Shad
• Golden Carp
• Green Sunfish
• Hybrid Sunfish
• King Salmon
• Lake Herring
• Lake Sturgeon
• Lake Trout
• Largemouth Bass
• Musky
• Northern Pike
• Pumpkinseed
• Rainbow Smelt
• Rainbow Trout
• Redear Sunfish
• Rock Bass
• Round Goby
• Smallmouth Bass
• Steelhead
• Striped Bass
• Walleye
• White Crappie
• Whitefish
• Yellow Perch

Invertebrates

• Acuminate Waterboatman
• Auden’s Waterboatman
• Black Darter
• Bloody-red Mysid
• Common Bluetail
• Common Whitetail
• Emperor Dragonfly
• Four-spotted Skimmer
• Globe Skimmer
• Gray-waisted Skimmer
• Green Darner
• Green Hawker
• Lesser Waterboatman
• Marsh Skimmer
• Migrant Hawker
• Red-veined Darter
• Scarce Chaser
• Tawny Pennant
• Water Cricket
• White-clawed Crayfish
• Yellow-winged Darter
• Zebra Mussel

Are Animals that live in Lakes Dangerous?

Certain reptiles like alligators and snakes live in lakes, and one must be wary of them while swimming or fishing.