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