Checklist of Essex County mammals
The following list is based on long-term county records and contains species that might be seen in the town.
| Virginia opossum | Didelphis virginiana |
| masked shrew | Sorex cinereus |
| Northern short-tailed shrew | Blarina brevicaudata |
| hairy-tailed mole | Parascalops breweri |
| Eastern mole | Scalopus aquaticus |
| star-nosed mole | Condylura cristata |
| little brown bat | Myotis lucifugis |
| Northern long-eared bat | Myotis septentrionalis |
| Eastern pipistrelle | Pipistrellus subflavus |
| big brown bat | Eptesicus fuscus |
| red bat | Lasiuris borealis |
| hoary bat | Lasiurus cinereus |
| Eastern cottontail | Sylvilagus floridanus |
| New England cottontail | Sylvilagus transitionalis |
| showshoe hare | Lepus americanus |
| Eastern chipmunk | Tamias striatus |
| woodchuck | Marmota monax |
| gray squirrel | Sciuris carolinensis |
| red squirrel | Tamiasciuris hudsonicus |
| Southern flying squirrel | Glaucomys volans |
| Northern flying squirrel | Glaucomys sabrinus |
| beaver | Castor canadensis |
| White-footed mouse | Peromyscus leucopus |
| Southern red-backed vole | Clethrionomys gapperi |
| meadow vole | Microtus pennsylvanicus |
| woodland vole | Microtus pinetorum |
| muskrat | Ondatra zibethicus |
| Norway rat | Rattus norvegicus |
| house mouse | Mus musculus |
| meadow jumping mouse | Zapus hudsonius |
| woodland jumping mouse | Napaeozapus insignis |
| porcupine | Erethizon dorsatus |
| coyote | Canis latrans |
| red fox | Vulpes vulpes |
| gray fox | Urocyon cinereoargenteus |
| raccoon | Procyon lotor |
| fisher | Martes pennanti |
| ermine | Mustela erminea |
| long-tailed weasel | Mustela frenata |
| mink | Mustela vison |
| striped skunk | Mephitis mephitis |
| Northern river otter | Lutra canadensis |
| white-tailed deer | Odocoileus virginianus |
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