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

 

2. Great Blue Heron

Habitat-rivers, bogs, ponds

Food-fish, frogs, mice

Status-common

 

3. Chain Pickerel

Habitat-rivers and streams

Food-other fish, dragonfly larve

Status-common

 

4. Pine Barrens Tree Frog

Habitat-wetlands like cedar swamps, pitch pine forests, bogs

Food-insects

Status-endangered

 

5. Northern Pine Snake

Habitat-uplands like oak-pine forests, non-forested areas, old fields

Food-rabbits, birds, squirrels, rats, mice

Status-threatened

 

6. White-tailed Deer

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

 

8. Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

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

 

13. Meadow Jumping Mouse

Habitat-wetlands like bogs and herbaceous wetlands

Food-seeds, berries, insects

Status-common

 

14. Timber Rattlesnake

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

 

17. Red-bellied Turtle

Habitat-wetlands like cedar forrests, bogs, bodies of water

Food-most water plants including lilly pads and sphagnum moss

Status-common

 

18. Eastern Fence Lizard

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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