Animal of the Catskills
By:Ned1198
White-tailed Deer
• Type: mammal• Diet: herbivore• lifespan in captivty:6 to 14 years• Size: 6 to 7.75 ft.• Weight: 110 to 300 lbs.
Bicknell’s thrush (catharus bicknelli)
• The estimated population is 21,000 to 53,000• The population trend is decreasing• Diet: caterpillars, beetles, ants, flies, wasps
Red Fox
• The red fox likes to eat rodents, rabbits, and small birds.
• A fox’s hearing is very good so they can hear a watch ticking from forty yards away!!
• A red foxIs a mam-mal
Brown Trout
• There regular length is 3 foot 4 inches• Their habitat is cold streams and lakes• Fish are not reptiles, amphibians, or mammals
they are just fish!
Milk Snakes
• A milk snakes diet includes small rodents, birds, and other small snakes
They like hiding places and barkMilk snakes are reptiles
Peregrine Falcon• Feeds mostly on doves, waterfowls, songbirds, and pigeons• The peregrine falcon has two other names which are the duck hawk and the King’s provider. The duck hawk canDive at 200 miles an Hour at least!
Black Bears
• Black bears likes to eat nuts, acorns, fruits, insects, and greens.
• Black Bears are mammals
Long-tailed Weasel
• Long-tailed weasels love to eat voles, moles, squirrels, chipmunks, shrews, and rabbits
Bobcat
• Some are known to live 25 years but most live 15
• The bobcats size is twice the size of a housecat
Coyote
• The coyote is an omnivore!• The coyote can live up to 14 years
Gray Fox
• They eat small mammals, birds, and vegetation
Opossum
• Opossums eat vegetables, insects, and mushrooms
Woodchuck
• The woodchuck eats insects
Beaver
• From what we learned we think beavers eat insects and spiders
Mink
• Minks like to eat fish, birds, and crayfish
Muskrat
• Muskrats like to eat arrowheads, cattails, and duckweed
Bull Frogs
• Bullfrogs will eat anything they can swallow
Snapping Turtle
• Snapping turtles eat birds, crabs, nuphar, and typha
Sites
• http://www.catskillarchive.com/rockwell/9.htm
• http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=30034
• http://depts.washington.edu/natmap/facts/long-tailed_weasel_712.html
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/bfl/speciesaccts/bicthr.html
http://www.avianweb.com/peregrinefalcons.html
http://kids.yahoo.com/animals/fishes/3566--Brown+Trout
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