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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
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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 fox Is 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 bark Milk 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 can Dive 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
http://www.avianweb.com/peregrinefalcons.html Sites http://www.birds.cornell.edu/bfl/speciesaccts/bicthr.html • 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://kids.yahoo.com/animals/fishes/3566--Brown+Trout