Detailed illustrations and concise descriptions provide a comprehensive guide to animal tracks, featuring both front and back prints along with stride patterns. Each entry includes accurate black-and-white illustrations that facilitate pattern and print comparisons, making it an essential resource for teachers, parents, hikers, and urban adventurers looking to identify local wildlife.
Detailed illustrations of animal tracks and prints are complemented by concise descriptions, showcasing both front and back prints, stride patterns, and other identifying features. The book includes accurate black-and-white drawings that facilitate pattern and print comparisons, making it an ideal resource for teachers, parents, hikers, and urban explorers seeking to enhance their understanding of wildlife.
Detailed illustrations accompany concise descriptions of over 58 common animals and their tracks found from upper New York to Tennessee. The book features front and back prints, stride patterns, and other identifying characteristics, making it an ideal reference for hikers, teachers, and parents. Its compact design is particularly suited for children, enhancing their understanding of wildlife and tracking.
Most of us are familiar with the neighborhood squirrels that flit from tree to tree, scamper along the top of fences or quarrel with bluejays over peanuts left out in the back yard. The squirrels of North America are a diverse group of mammals, however, that range from ground-dwelling squirrels living in tremendous underground colonies to flying squirrels that sail from tree to tree silently in the night. Whether you are deep in the wilderness of a national park or simply watching the wildlife in your backyard, this book will help identify and understand each species of squirrel you encounter.
The mighty polar bear. The plucky beaver. The majestic caribou. These iconic animals are etched in our national consciousness (and on our coins), but they represent only a small fraction of the amazing variety of mammals found in Canada's wild. Lone Pine Publishing, Canada's leading publisher of nature guides, celebrates this diversity with Mammals of Canada. Features include: * 188 species accounts with information about habitat, food, young, den, range and similar species * Colour-coded header bars and quick reference guide to make finding information fast and easy * Beautiful illustrations and photographs * Range maps * ''Did you know'' facts * Detailed descriptions of our natural regions * Tips on watching mammals * Canada's top mammal-watching sites. * Whether you are a naturalist, a photographer, a wildlife enthusiast or simply appreciate the great outdoors, this book will become a vital reference in your natural history library.
Whales and Other Marine Mammalls of Atlantic Canada is much more than a field guide to the 34 species of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and otters - it opens a window into the behavior of these incredibly complex and social creatures, illuminates the latest findings in whales have made on our culture, from qncient legion to modern mythology. It also includes tips on whale watching and a map of the best whale-watching sites in Atlantic Canada.