I will do the 10 most common of each animal group located in Massachusetts
Mammals
1 white tailed deer
2 chipmunk
3 gray/red squirrel
4 moose
5 otter
6 mice
7 fisher
8 weasel
9 oppusum
10 black bear also called American bear
Reptiles
1 eastern garter snake
2 painted turtle
3 five lined skink
4 northern water snake
5 Box turtle
6 milk snake
7 wood turtle
8 timber rattlesnake
9 northern copperhead
10 spotted turtle
Amphibians
1 green frog
2 blue spotted/spotted salamander
3 three toed salamander
4 spring peeper
5 wood frog
6 American/fowlers toad
7 bull frog
8 red backed salamander
9 duskey salamander
10 leapord frog
Birds
1 red tailed hawk
2 red winged black bird
3 blue bird
4 bald eagle
5 gold finch
6 black capped chickadee
7 blue jay
8 coopers hawk
9 great horned owl
10 house finch
Fish
1 great white shark
2 cod
3 striped bass
4 blue fish
5 mako shark
6 blue shark
7 little skate
8 tuna
9 Atlantic sturgeon
10 American shad
Insects 5
1 pennslyvania firefly
2 lady bug
3 preying mantis
4 field cricket
5 fly
Spiders
1 wolf spider
2 black widow
3 brown recluse
4 black and yellow garden spider
5 house spider
Sea mammals
1 harbor/ grey seal
2 right whale
3 bottlenosed dolphin
4 humpback whale
5 minke whale
One other mammal I forgot to mention that is really common is the red/grey fox.
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