By: Clarke Bennett

Table of Contents

• 3- Little Brown Bat• 4- American Beaver• 5- Eastern Cottontail Rabbits• 6- Eastern Gray Squirrel• 7- North Eastern Coyote• 8- Red Fox• 9- Striped Skunk• 10- River Otter• 11- Raccoon• 12- Black Bear• 13- White Tailed Deer• 14- Bibliography

Little Brown Bat

• Weighs 8 grams and has a wing span of 22- 27 cm

• Has very large ears compared to its head• Live for approximately 10 years, can live longer• Live in trees, buildings and caves• eat insects such as mosquitoes, flies and

moths. They can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour.

• They are nocturnal

American Beaver

• Largest rodent in New York• 40- 50 inches long and weigh 22 to 75 lbs• Have a flattened scaly tail• Live all over North America• They live on slow-flowing brooks, streams, and

rivers for dam construction, but they also live in small lakes and fairly large rivers

• They eat bark of deciduous tree, like willows and birches.

Eastern Cottontail Rabbits

• Longer ears and weigh more than New England Cottontails.

• May have a white or black spot on forehead

• Favor pastures, open wood and farm land to live on

• Are most active at night• Feed on grasses in the summer and twigs

and buds in winter.

Eastern Grey Squirrel

• Have a bushy tail, a grey colored back and a white belly

• 16- 20 inches long and weigh approximately 1.5 lbs

• Eat nuts, fungi, seeds, fruits, and insects.

• Live almost anywhere (in rural, suburban, and urban areas.

North Eastern Coyote

• Less then two feet tall and weighs approximately 31 pounds

• Are thought to be hybrid with the red wolf • Are diurnal but have become more nocturnal• Eat small mammals such as squirrels, mice, and

voles. They also eat fruit and berries• You usually don’t see coyotes but you can hear

them howl• They are found in rural, suburban, and ever

some urban settings.

Red Fox

• 10-14lbs dog like animals with bushy tails

• Usually red with black legs and white tipped tails

• They live in suburban and urban places

• They are omnivores and eat insects, birds, mice, snakes, berries and fruits.

Striped Skunk

• Is black with a white stripe from nose to tail• Only found in North America• Lives in open fields about two miles from water• They are omnivores and eat small mammals,

fish, crustaceans, fruits, nuts, leaves • When threatened by a predator, it will spray it

with a strong smelling fluid• They are nocturnal

River Otter

• Have brown fur, 3-4 ft long, 44- 82 lbs, semi-retractable claws, webbed feet, and are stream line

• Live in rivers, streams, ponds, and marshes• Are kept warm by dense fur and high

metabolism• Eat crustaceans, slow fish, insects, small

mammals and birds• Are preyed upon by bald eagles, bears and

coyotes• Are aquatic mammals

Raccoon

• Are brown or gray with black masks over their eyes

• Nocturnal• Are omnivorous and eat berries, insects, eggs

and small animals • Raccoons have adapted well to city and

suburban life• They are considered pests by most people and

are able to open garbage cans with their thumbs

Black Bear

• Omnivorous: eat berries, grasses, insects and small mammals

• Hibernate during winter months but can become fully awake in a few minutes if disturbed

• Live to be about 10 years old• Weigh 100 to 150 pounds for females and up to

300 pounds or more for males • Bluish-black color, with short tails and small ears• They require a lot of land to roam on

White-tailed deer

• Tan or brown, white on it’s throat and tail, males weigh from 150-300 lbs and females weigh 90-200 lbs

• Found in most of the U.S. except the south west• Live in wooded areas and overpopulation is a

problem• Are herbivores: they eat twigs, acorns and green

plants, depending on the season• Fawns (baby deer) have white spots when they

are born for camouflage• Adult males have antlers

Bibliography• 3-

http://www.env.gov.nl.ca/snp/Publications/brownbat/brownbat.htm• 4-

http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/mammal/Rod/Beaver/beaver.htm• 5- http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfwcotontail.htm• 6- http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/greysquirrel.html• 7- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote• 8- http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/redfox.html• 9- http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/stripedskunk.htm• 10-

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/weasel/Riverotterprintout.shtml

• 11- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon• 12- http://wildwnc.org/af/blackbear.html• 13- http://www.nhptv.org/Natureworks/whitetaileddeer.htm