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Naming Flashcards

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Baneberry (white): CC=8, all parts poisonous (doll’s eyes), bane=evil

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Bastard toadflax

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Bladderwort

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Blue cohosh: all parts blue poisonous, CC=8

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Purple violets: chordate leaf base, center has dark lines that act as landing strip for bugs

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Blue flag (virginia) iris

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Bracken fern

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narrow leaved cat tail

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Burdock: CC=1, year two they make burs, female is taller

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canada (white) violet: dark lines at center that act as landing strip for the bugs

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Canada thistle

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centoria starthistle: rosette arrangement release chemicals into soil that inhibit growth of other plants

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club mosses

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lamb’s ear

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cutleaf toothwort

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dandelion

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dutchman’s breeches: red corm

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false solomon’s seal

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foamflower

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forget me nots

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gay wing

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gallium

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goldthread

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hepatica: CC=10

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hoary puccoon

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horsetail

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jack in the pulpit

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large flowered trillium

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leafy spurge

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lichens

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marram grass: mainly in sand, slows sand movement

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marsh marigold

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mitrewort

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northern starflower: perennial

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pink ladyslipper

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pitcher plant

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pitcher thistle

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plantain

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rock cress: type of mustard, lives in sand with less movement

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sarsparilla: “rootbeer plant” leaf begins at soil

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sedge: looks similar to grass, but remember “sedge has edge”, triangle base

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sensitive fern

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sessileleaf bellwort: CC=8

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butterwort

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solomon’s seal (true)

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sphagnum moss: loose moss that acidifies water to a pH of 3

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squirrel corn: yellow corm

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starflower solomon’s seal: sand loving, dwarf

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stinging nettle

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sweet cicely

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toothwort: helped with teeth issues

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trout lily: inside of fruit looks like the middle of a bell pepper

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wild carrot: aka queen’s anslace, white carrot, fuzzy stem, smell like a carrot

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wild leek

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wild lily of the valley: perennial

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wild strawberry: grow lower, fuzzy stem

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wintergreen: smell nice when torn

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wood nettle: stinging hairs

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wormwood

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yellow violet

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yellowrocket (american)

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alternate leaved dogwood: CC=6, when in doubt slowly break in half and see if string form-latex test

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american beech: perennial

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american fly honeysuckle

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ash (white, black): 5 plus leaflets

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amur honeysuckle

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autumn olive

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balsam fir: not a pine, singular needles, flat, dark green on top and white lines on bottom

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balsam poplar: live in dunes, old buds look like wasp nest

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basswood

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american barberry

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bearberry

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bigtooth aspen

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black spruce

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chokecherry: called this because fruit is so sour you feel like you are choking

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common juniper: prickly, makes gin, upright and tolerant to drought

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red osier dogwood

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eastern hemlock: balsam fir, but smaller needles and tiny pine cones, found in hardwood forest

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hawthorn

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iron wood: soft leaves that make for great toilet paper

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jack pine: pine cones rely on fire, needle clusters of 2, pointy and short needles, extremely drought tolerant,

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labrador tea

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lowbush blueberry (huckleberry)

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cluster of blossoms that are globed or light fixtures, blossoms point down

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mapleleaf viburnum

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partridgeberry

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related to wintergreen, perennial evergreen, smooth leaves, red berries, opposite leaves, white mid rib

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pin cherry

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serrated leaf, flower structure is diff from other cherries, almost an umbel

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shrubby cinquefoil

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red maple: simple opposite leaves, palmate vein, 5 lobes, serrations inside lobes

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red oak

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white oak

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red pine

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long stiff needles in clusters of 2

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sand cherry: live in the sand, stay low to the ground unlike other cherries

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common service berry

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speckled alder: produces cone shap NOT pinecones, lobed leaves serrated, simple alternate, white speckled stem lentisoles

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staghorn sumac: grows on the edge of forest normally, can be used to make tea

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sugar maple: similar to red maple, but no serrations

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tamarack

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quaking aspen

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white cedar: found in both hot dry areas and swamp, great fence posts because rot and water resistant

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white pine

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needle clusters of 5, soft, wont snap when bent

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wild grape

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yew (american): CC=10, medicinal property of helping ovarian cancer

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alder flycatcher

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american crow

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american redstart

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american robin

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bald eagle

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white head and tail, flies with wings straight out

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baltimore oriole

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barn swallow

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black and white warbler

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blackburnian warbler

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black capped chickadee

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black throated green warbler: —_ _-

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blue headed vireo

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bluejay

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longer yelling kind of call

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bobolink:

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rough legged hawk

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brown creeper

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brown headed cowbird

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canada goose

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canada warbler

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caspian tern

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chestnut sided warbler

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chipping sparrow

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common loon

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mate for life, can dive underwater for a couple minutes, sit lower in the water than ducks

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common merganser

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common yellowthroat

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coopers hawk

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eastern bluebird

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blue backs orange chests, territorial

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eastern kingbird

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eastern meadowlark

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eastern phoebe

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eastern wood peewee

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evening grosbeak: sounds like its rolling its r’s

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golden eagle

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golden crowned kinglet

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golden winged warbler

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goldfinch

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grackle

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rasshopper sparrow

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gray cheeked thrush

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gray catbird

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great blue heron

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great crested flycatcher

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eat egret

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hairy woodpecker

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hermit thrush

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herring gull

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indigo bunting

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killdeer

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kirtland’s warbler

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least flycatcher

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make a chebek sound, little yellow low on belly, brown with white stripe

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mallard

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merlin

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mourning dove

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grey, make a “wooh ooh” sound

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mute swan

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nashville warbler

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nothern flicker

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northern harrier

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northern perula warbler

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osprey

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oven bird: “teacher, teacher, teacher”

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pileated woodpecker

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pine siskin

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pine warbler

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piping plover

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prairie warbler

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purple finch

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raven

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red eyed vireo

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red bellied woodpecker

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red breasted merganser

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red breasted nuthatch

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red tailed hawk

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red winged blackbird

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have a red dot on their wing with yellow under, sound mechanical

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ring billed gull

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rose breasted grosbeak

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rose chest, white lines on wings, whistle talk

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ruffed grouse

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eastern towhee

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sandhill crane: sounds like rubber

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savannah sparrow

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scarlet tanager

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sedge wren

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song sparrow

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black spot on chest

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sora

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spotted sandpiper

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swamp sparrow

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thrasher

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tree swallow: narrow wings that make it aerodynamic

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trumpeter swan

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turkey vulture

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all black, fly with wings in v shape

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upland sandpiper

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veery

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vesper sparrow

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whippoorwill

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white breasted nuthatch: only bird that can walk down a tree with its butt up

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white crested sparrow

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white throated sparrow

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wild turkey

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wilson’s snipe

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winter wren

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wood thrush

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yellow bellied sapsucker

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yellow warbler

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yellow rumped warbler

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yellow throated vireo

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yellow chest and head, eye ring, high pitched

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bobcat

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chipmunk

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coyote

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deer mouse

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white tailed deer

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green frog

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yellow swallowtail

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monarch butterflies

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mosquitoes

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red squirrel

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gray (black squirrel)

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porkupine

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raccoon

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13 line squirrel

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red fox

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eastern american toad

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spring peeper

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blue racer snake

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garter snake

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barred owl

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weasel

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eastern hognosed snake

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ribbon snake

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red bellied snake

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northern ring necked snake

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milk snake

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muskrat

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northern water snake

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virginia opossum

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skink

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black bear

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newt

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snapping turtle

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painted turtle

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pickerell frog

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leapord frog tadpole

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red backed salamander

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wood frog

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crayfish

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slimy sculpin

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trout

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lamprey eel

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cucumber root: more organized than star flower

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