animals Flashcards
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- Greater Sage Grouse
- native: shrub steppe
- eats insects, wildflowers, crops
- req’s sagebrush for year-round food
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- European honey bee
- native to Europe, W. Asia, Africa
- lives anywhere w/ flowering plants
- eat pollen, nectar, honey (conc. nectar)
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- Elk: two-toed, hoofed, ruminant herbivore
- massive historic range of all N.A. and lots of asia
- eats Western Hemlock,
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- Western rattlesnake
- native: shrub steppe
- eats: small mammals, grounded birds
- live in: abandoned burrows
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- Gray wolf
- eats: primarily ungulates, some smaller mammals
- native N.A.
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- Mountain goat
- native: Alaska -> rockies
- herbivores, eat grasses, herbs, sedges, ferns, mosses, lichens, and twigs and leaves from the low-growing shrubs and conifers of their high-altitude habitat
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- Burrowing owl
- native: NA
- eats: insects, small mammals
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- North American brown bear
- native: NA
- omnivorous: 80-90% diet is veg, then fish, mammals
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- Canyon wren
- Found throughout the arid mountain country and canyon lands of western north America
- eats: insects/spiders in *deep* cracks
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- Apple maggot
- eggs -> under apple skin; larvae burrow to over-winter
- native: NW, lots of rest of US, some Canada
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- Blackbilled magpie
- grasslands, meadows and sagebrush
- open spaces with clusters of trees
- western North America
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- Wolverine
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- The darkling beetle
- headstands when threatened… foul-smelling black fluid
- larvae = mealworms… good eatin’!
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- Western skink
- blue tail, can detach
- Prefer shrub steppe, grasslands, open forests
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- Western pine beetle
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- Western Fence lizard
- blue belly
- does pushups
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- Cougar / Mountain lion
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- Great basin spadefoot toad
- Found in arid regions and semi-desert scrubland, sagebrush flats, ponderosa pine, and spruce/fir forests at 2800m.
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- Golden-mantled ground squirrel
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- Pygmy rabbit
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Common Earthworm
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Giant garden slug
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Northern Flying squirrel
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Spotted owl
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Great Blue Heron
26
Bufflehead
27
Banana slug
28
Chestnut-backed chickadee
29
Bald eagle
30
Gray jay
31
Red Crossbill
32
Keen's myotis
33
Clark's nutcracker
34
American crow
35
Pacific tree frog
36
Cascades frog
37
Hoary marmot
38
Northwestern Garter snake
39
Pileated woodpecker
40
Western gray squirrel
41
North American river otter
42
Peregrine falcon
43
Western spruce budworm
44
Raccoon
45
North American beaver
46
Canada goose
47
Western screech owl
48
Ring-billed gull
