Animal Tracks of New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and VermontInfo on 40-50 animals common to each region. |
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absent from Rhode active year round ANIMAL TRACKS aquatic areas beaver berries birds black bear bobcat brushy bullfrog burrow Carnivora flesh-eating mammals carrion chipmunk claws common coniferous Connecticut cottontail coyote crows Diet EASTERN COTTONTAIL eastern gray squirrel European hare Family fish five toes flying squirrels forests frogs front feet ground Hampshire heron hind feet imprints inches insects Junco killdeer leaps leave prints leave tracks Leporidae long-tailed weasel lynx marks marten meadows mice mink moose muskrat Mustelidae nearly nest nocturnal northern occasionally Order ounces porcupine pounds rabbits raccoons Range and habitat red squirrel Rhode Island river otter Rodentia gnawing mammals ruffed grouse Sciuridae Sciuridae squir seeds shorebird short-tailed shrews skunk snow snowshoe hare Sounds SOUTHERN FLYING SQUIRREL Southern red-backed voles species swamp fringes tail drag throughout New England toads track clusters trail trees turtle usually vegetation walking stride weight white-tailed deer wild wingspan winter woodchuck year-round