Instructions for creating and using the Animal Information Cards.
Click on each hyperlinked animal name below to bring up that particular card. Print the card and fold it in half around a durable material like cardboard or oak tag. The following is a list of the illustrated animal cards with the corresponding information found on the back of each card.
1. Blue Jay
Habitat-uplands
Food-acorns, insects, eggs, young birds
Status-common
Habitat-rivers, bogs, ponds
Food-fish, frogs, mice
Status-common
Habitat-rivers and streams
Food-other fish, dragonfly larve
Status-common
Habitat-wetlands like cedar swamps, pitch pine forests, bogs
Food-insects
Status-endangered
Habitat-uplands like oak-pine forests, non-forested areas, old fields
Food-rabbits, birds, squirrels, rats, mice
Status-threatened
Habitat-throughout the Pinelands
Food-acorns, buds, leaves, tender bark
Status-common
7. Beaver
Habitat-wetlands like streams, lakes, and swamps
Food-bark of certain trees
Status-original population extinct by1820; reintroduced to the region and now common
Habitat-throughout the Pinelands; most numerous around cedar swamps, in recently burned areas, and along the edges of agricultural areas
Food-grasses, clover, bark, herbs
Status-common
9. Man
Habitat-can live almost anywhere
Food-plants and/or animals
Status-common
10. Gray Fox
Habitat-uplands and wetlands
Food-rabbits, seeds, berries
Status-common
11. Red Squirrel
Habitat-uplands
Food-pine cones, acorns, small birds, bird eggs
Status-common
12. Great Horned Owl
Habitat-uplands and wetlands
Food-young fox kits, mice
Status-common
Habitat-wetlands like bogs and herbaceous wetlands
Food-seeds, berries, insects
Status-common
Habitat-uplands and wetlands
Food-mice, red squirrels
Status-endangered
15. Turkey Vulture
Habitat-uplands
Food-dead animals
Status-common
16. Opossum
Habitat-uplands and wetlands
Food-dead animals, eggs, bugs, mice
Status-common
Habitat-wetlands like cedar forrests, bogs, bodies of water
Food-most water plants including lilly pads and sphagnum moss
Status-common
Habitat-uplands
Food-insects
Status-common
19. Black Duck
Habitat-wetlands
Food-insects, water plants
Status-common
20. Snapping Turtle
Habitat-near water, swamps and ponds
Food-fish
Status-common
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