That was a good thread; too bad no one added on to it.
I used to live in the narrow central part of Redondo Beach, about two blocks south of 190th Street, which is pretty much the dividing line between the north part (90278) and south part (90277) of the city. A block from our home, in an area of nursery stock beneath high-tension power lines, I saw a fox running along the street!
Many years ago, a truck carrying peafowl apparently overturned in the Palos Verdes area. Now the birds, which seem to have a really nasty disposition, are common in the PV area.
In the mobile-home park where I live now, Animal Control has often trapped possums that roam the park, hunting for food (as you noted, Dragonblink). There are also lots of noisy crows (I think one bit the head off a sparrow! :eek: ) and mallards, male and female, in the Dominguez Flood Control Channel half a block from home. At one time time there was a mama duck and several ducklings walking along the stream of water. 
And a male mallard in a tree-shade area of El Camino College (appropriately, near a building where biology classes meet) protecting his mate, who was sitting on eggs. The ECC campus also has plenty of squirrels.
I live in a suburb of San Diego where there are still some wild hills and canyons, so we have everything. A pack of five coyotes used to gather right outside our fence and “sing” for hours, and stare at us coldly if we dared to go out to try to shoo them off. One memorable day my husband and I were standing in our front yard when a huge … I guess it’s a “bevy” … of quail came trotting up the middle of the street. I’m guessing there were thirty or so birds. When they reached our driveway they took flight, probably because we were standing there. It was rather magical!
I’ve also seen ducks, geese, egrets, one heron, golden eagles, redtailed hawks, owls (I don’t know what kind, but one of them carried off a neighbor’s kitten right before their horrified eyes), plenty of skunks, opossums, ground squirrels, tree rats, field mice, cottontail rabbits, jackrabbits - probably every kind of wildlife Southern California has to offer. Just last month my cat growled and charged toward the glass patio door, and I saw a BIG raccoon whirl around and take off into the yard. My cat weight six pounds, so I’m not sure what either one of them were thinking.
i live next to a wildlife center, so we get tons of animals in our yard and our neighborhood all the time…deer, turkeys, canadian geese, rabbits, skunks, chipmunks, squirrels, foxes…
i go to school in nyc and in manhattan there’s basically only pigeons.
Near the Nashville International Airport I’ve seen a small herd of deer, coyotes (for the English Gentleperson, think halfway between fox & wolf), rabbits, a snapping turtle crossing the road, & one omrning a skunk accompanied me on my morning walk for 10 minutes. He seemed to like me, but I didn’t push my luck.
Coyotes, jackrabbits, roadrunners, the occasional bear, some lousy silver minnows…
Here in Keller, TX (north of Fort Worth), I live next to a park with a creek. We have an acre, so we have tons of squirrels, various birds, and a possumor two living under our deck. I’ve seen raccoons, smelled skunks, but the topper has to be…
A BOBCAT walking down the street at dusk on a Sunday. THAT really freaked my dogs out.
Yes, a bobcat walking around the suburbs. Scary…
In Claremont, which is a suburb of LA, rabbits are the most common animals. For those who have chosen to live up on the mountains, coyotes and wild goats are frequently visible.
Amazon parrots, iguanas, boa constrictors, and the occasional toucan.
You forgot prairie dogs, lowriders and Don Schrader.
In Indianapolis, home of the 500, we have lots of red squirrels (I mean LOTS – tourists, please take a few home with you when you leave in May), possums (I had one living in my breezeway this summer), raccoons, and the occasional coyote. I’ve also seen deer not far from downtown. And once, a kangaroo got loose from the zoo and hopped down Washington Street and got downtown (going shopping, I suppose) until it was captured – does that count?
We have a problem with starlings – the city planned on poisoning them, but apparently the buggers have a stay of execution. We have huge flocks of them that have been causing all sorts of damage to buildings.
Here in Greater Vancouver, we have all the usual small stuff - crows, pigeons, lots of gulls, squirrels, skunks, raccoons. We also have quite a few coyotes living in the city, and sometimes get deer, cougars and bears wandering in. Once when I was living in Port Coquitlam, a suburb that borders on farmland, my ex was nearly run off the road by a Great Blue Heron that came up out of the creek beside the road. About the same time, a few blocks from home, our dog spotted a bear and wanted to go play with the cubs. Mama bear didn’t seem all that keen on the idea, so we finished our walk in a different direction.
San Francisco and environs, here. We used to get coyotes and mountain lions, but I think they’ve mostly been killed off or moved to less developed areas. These days, mostly raccoons, possums, and skunks. There used to be a raccoon that would stroll right into our kitchen and help himself to the dog’s food. He’d look you right in the eye as he washed the kibble off in the water dish, as if he was saying, “You got a problem with me? What the hell you gonna do about it?” Put some chicken wire over the hole, for starters.
Oh, and I understand there are flocks of wild parrots nesting in the financial district.
Northside of Chicago here.
On my block: opossums, many rabbits, a pair of small unidentified woodpeckers
Within a few blocks: at least one skunk, racoons, kestrels, peregrines
I live equidistant to 2 huge old cemetaries. One, Rosehill, has foxes. There used to be deer there, but I believe they were imported. The other, Graceland, has been the stopping off place for several Great Blue herons for years.
There are also the ubiquitous squirrels, pigeons, rats and starlings. A fair number of unusual birds nest nearby. By that I mean most of my neighbors couldn’t identify them. A few years ago a neighbor to the north of me set loose a pair of coatimundi. Those caused quite a few double-takes when they ran across Lawrence Ave.
Once a year or so a coyote will be found downtown. They are presumed to have followed the rail lines in. Deer occasionally show up in back yards. Several forest preserves are within the city limits. There is also a large population of quaker parrots living and breeding in Hyde Park.
Havre de Grace, MD here. Our yard borders where the Susquehanna river meets the Chesapeake bay. We have Snapping Turtles, Box Turtles, deer, rabbits, and all sorts of little snakes. Dave saw a fox the other day. We also have raccoons, although I haven’t seen any around here.
In Canmore, AB Canada, where I lived before moving here, I lived halfway up a mountain. I have had Elk and Deer in the yard, as well as coyotes and bears. It’s not unknown for the animals to roam the streets of Banff, as well.
Garden snakes, weasels, heron, “tanuki” (Japanese raccoon dogs).
Some places up north have trouble with monkeys and bears. And in the mountains surrounding Matsuyama some of the villages have wild boar.
I live on an island, population about 12,000. We have dingoes wandering in and out of built up areas and my ex partner used to have bush turkeys dancing on his roof regularly. Last year we had a pair of pheasants wandering about, they seem to have moved on though. Around the edges of the town - kangaroos.
Also about a million flying foxes visit every night at the moment, apparently because of the drought.
Suburban Spokane, Washington here.
Nothing that hasn’t been mentioned already: a lot of gray squirrels, crows and/or ravens (most common during fall), raccoons, skunks, pheasant (who aren’t native), chipmunks, coyotes, and an occasional elk, deer, black bear, moose, bald eagle, or cougar (a few years ago, there was a controversy when local animal control caught one that was trapped up in a tree in one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods and put it to sleep rather than releasing it in the wild).
Here in Ann Arbor, I have seen some animals new to me, specifically woodchucks, chipmunks, and foxes. We don’t have these back in Northern California, where I am originally from. There are deer, skunks, raccoons, and possums in both places.
My college campus was decorated with “BEWARE OF MOUNTAIN LIONS” signs. Not one person I knew ever so much as saw a mountain lion. Lots and lots (and lots) of deer, though, plus whatever odd animals you might find in the redwood forest that makes up the grounds of the University of California, Santa Cruz (including banana slugs, of course). My first week of college, my dormmates and I found a baby rattlesnake outside of our dorm. And that reminds me of being a little kid on school outings in San Francisco, trying to catch garter snakes. As the San Francisco garter snake is now terribly endangered, I hope we didn’t actually catch any.
I lived in Haifa, Israel for a couple months. The University of Haifa is next to a national forest, and we could often hear howling at night. We Californians immediately assumed they were coyotes, and were puzzled as to how they could have gotten to Israel, as we were sure they were a purely American animal. Naturally, we were entirely wrong - we were hearing jackals.
I’d like to see giraffes here in Atlanta. It’s on the books that it’s illegal to tie one to a parking meter, but ya know, I’ve never seen anyone try it!