Animals of the Dunes

Birds and Mammals

Red-throated Loon

• Gavia stellata• Named because of

the color of its throat• Changes color in

winter time• is not capable of

walking on land instead slides itself along on its chest

Pacific Loon

• Gavia pacifica • Looks very similar to

Red-throat loons except the red coloring

• Fish eater• Spends the winter at

sea

Striped Skunk

• Mephitis mephitis • Eats nice, eggs, insectsm

carrion, grubs, and berries

• Males live by themselves but female can live in groups

• Has scent glands in which it uses when frightened in defense

Your Presentation

• Pick 2 birds and a Mammal• Animals must only be presented once

• Give Scientific Name• 1 picture of the animal• 3 interesting Facts about the animal• Do think that we will see these animals?

Birds– Scoters– Jaegers – Red-shouldered Hawk – Pileated Woodpecker– Red headed Woodpecker – Wood Thrush Veery– Blackburnian Warbler– Prothonotary Warbler– Canada Warbler– Prairie Warbler – Pine Warbler – Pine Siskin – Cackling Goose– Pacific Loon– Little Blue Heron

– Harlequin Duck – Northern Goshawk – Thayer's Gull – Little Gull – Glaucous Gull– Great Black-backed Gull– Eurasian Collared-Dove – White-winged Dove – Loggerhead Shrike– Townsend's Solitaire– Kirtland's Warbler– Smith's Longspur– Yellow-headed Blackbird – Evening Grosbeak– Pine Grosbeak

Mammals

• Virginia opossum• Least Shrew• Eastern Mole• Brown myotis• Eastern red bat• Big brown bat• Eastern cottontail• Eastern chipmunk• Woodchuck• Thirteen-lined ground squirrel• Eastern gray squirrel• Red squirrel• American beaver

• Coyote• Red fox• Common gray fox• Common Raccon• Least weasal• Mink• American Badger• White-tailed deer• White-footed mouse• Prairie deer mouse• Norway rat• Prairie vole• Common muskrat