Instructions for the Animal Information Cards

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