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Fallow deer (damwild)

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Breeding season: end of Oct - mid-Nov
Gestation period: 30-34 weeks
Young are born: June (1; sometimes 2)
Teeth: 32
Males: Hirsch, damhirsch
Females: Tier, damtier
Young Male: Damhirschkalb
Young Female: Kalb
Herd: Rudel
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Red deer (rotwild)

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Breeding season (brunftzeit): Sep-Oct
Gestation period: 33-34 weeks
Young are born: May-Jun (usually 1)
Teeth: 34 (at 32 months)
2 eyeteeth are called: Grandeln
Males: Hirsch, rothirsch
Females: Tier, hirschkuh, stuck
Young Male: Hirschkalb
Young Female: Kalb
Herd: Rudel
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Sika deer (sikawild)

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Breeding season: Oct-Nov
Gestation period: 30-34 weeks
Young are born: Jun (1; sometimes 2)
Teeth: 34
Males: Hirsch, sikahirsch
Females: Tier
Young Male: Sikahirschkalb
Young Female: Kalb
Herd: Rudel
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Roe deer (rehwild)

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*Breeding season: mid-Jul - mid-Aug (called “blattzeit”)
*Gestation period: dormant until Dec; 40-42 weeks
*Young are born: May-Jun (1 or 2; 1st time is typically 1)
*Teeth: 32
Males: Nock, rehbock, sechser (3x3), gabler (fork), speisser (spike), knopfbock
Females: Geiss, ricke
Young Male: Bockkitz
Young Female: Kitz
*Herd: Sprung

  • 3 ridges on milk (3rd) tooth: high (shoulder), & weigh 35-40 lbs
  • Has white spot on snout (muffelfleck) that enlarges with age
  • Has white spot on rump (spiegel): shaped like kidney (male) or heart (female)
  • White spots on fawns disappear at 6 months
  • Rubbing velvet away is called Fegen
  • Fawns start growing antlers (Knoepfen)
  • Bucks with testicle injuries sometimes grow big soft antlers (perueckenbock)
  • Sheds antlers in Nov/Dec
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Chamois (gamswild)

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Breeding season: Nov
Gestation period: 20-21 weeks
Young are born: May (1; sometimes 2)
Teeth: 32
Males: Gamsbock
Females: Geiss
Fawns: Kitz
Herd: Rudel
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Mouflon (muffelwild)

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Breeding season: Oct-Dec
Gestation period: 22 weeks
Young are born: Mar-Jun (1)
Teeth: 32
Males: Widder
Females: Schaf/schafe
Young: Lamm/lammer
Herd: Rudel
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Wild boar (wildschwein/schwarzwild)

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Breeding season (rauschzeit): Dec-Jan
Gestation period: 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days (15-16 weeks)
Young are born: Mar-Apr (3-9)
Teeth: 44; developed at 24 mos
Males 1-2: Uberlauferkeiler
Males 3-4: Keiler, angehender keiler
Males 5-6: Keiler, hauendes schwein
Males 6+: Keiler, hauptschwein, grobes schwein
Females 1-2: Uberlauferbache
Females 3+: Bache
Piglets: Frieschling (lose stripes at 6 mos)
Herd: Rotte (males forced out at 2 yrs)
Led by "leitbache" (lead female)
Omnivores
Have gallbladders (eat meat); holds bile
Wallow in mud holes (suhle)
Trophies: Waffen (teeth), schwarte (hide), saubart (hair for brush/hat)
Can hunt at night
Kessel: birthing/nursing area
Waffen: lower tusks (big)
Gewehr: upper tusks (small)
Pinzel: penis
Teller: ears
Geafter: false hooves
Ballen: ball of foot
Schale: hoof
Must be tested for radiation; more prominent in young
Can have trichinosis (worms in muscles)
Can have Schwein Pest (swine fever; NOT zoonotic)
Malbaum: drawing tree (for bait)
Buchenholztee: stinky pig lure
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Hare (hase)

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Breeding season (rammelzeit): Feb-Aug
Gestation period: 42 days
Young are born: 3-4 x/season (3-5)
Teeth: 28
Males: Rammler
Female: hasin
Hind legs 2x as long as front
Sudden, sharp turns 
Do NOT burrow or hibernate
Fox is #1 predator 
Nest is "sasse" (above ground)
Born w fur
Are yellow-brown w long, black-tipped ears
Tail is a "blume"
NOT social, unless breeding
Have a hunting season
Are ruminants
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Rabbit (kaninchen)

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Breeding season (rammelzeit): Feb-Aug
Gestation period: 28-31 days
Very social
Get "myxomatosis"; caused by fleas/Mosquitos; only harmful to rabbits; fatal
Live in burrows; don't hibernate 
Born blind w/o fur
Hunted all year
Tail has black tip
Ears are 2-3" long; tail is 2" long
Tularea (rabbit fever): passed to humans; looks like blisters
No hunting season (hunt year round)
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Pheasant (fasan)

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Breeding season: late winter-early spring
Eggs per nest: 10-15 (dirty green color)
Male: Hahn 
Female: Henne
Flock: Gesperre
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Hungarian partridge (rebhuhn)

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Breeding season: Mar-Apr
Eggs per nest: 15 (light grey-dirty green color)
Male: Hahn
Female: Huhn, huhner
Flock: Gesperre
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Woodcock (waldschnepfe)

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Breeding season: Mar-Apr

Eggs per nest: 4 (dirty brown color)

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Wild pigeon (wildtauben)
Ringdove/wood pigeon (ringeltaube)
Stock dove (hohltaube)
Turtle Dove (turteltaube)
Collared Turtle Dove (turkentaube)
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Breeding season: Mar-Jun

Eggs per nest: 4

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Duck charactarization:

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  • Dabbling/river ducks (schwimmenten) or

- Diving/sea ducks (tauchenten)

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Dabbling/river ducks (schwimmenten):

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  • Mallard (stockente)
  • Garganey (knakente)
  • Green-winged teal (krickente)
  • Pintail (spiessente)
  • Gadwall (schnatterente)
  • Eurasian wigeon (pfeifente)
  • Northern Shoveler (loeffelente)
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Diving/sea ducks (tauchenten):

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  • Pochard (tafelente)
  • Golden eye (schellente)
  • Tufted duck (reiherente)
  • Red-crested pochard (kolbenente)
  • Common eider (eiderente)
  • Merganser (saeger); included red-breasted (mittelsaeger), goosander (gansesaeger), smew (zwergsaeger)
  • Coot (blasshuehner)
  • Grebes (taucher)
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Waterfowl:

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  • Wild goose (wildganse)
  • Greylag geese (grauganse)
  • Bean goose (saatgans)
  • White-fronted goose (blassgans)
  • Lesser white-fronted goose (swerggans)
  • Brent goose (ringelgans)
  • Canada goose (Kanadagans)
  • Cormorant (Kormoran)
  • Swan (schwane): mute swan (hoeckerschwan), whooper swan (singschwan), and tundra swan (zwergschwan)
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Red fox (fuchs)

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  • Den: fuchsbau

- Change coat in Apr/May

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Pine marten/stone marten (baummarder/steinmarder)

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Large weasel (hermelin)

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Small weasel (mauswiesel)

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Fitch (iltis)

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Badger (dachs)

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Raccoon dog/raccoon (marderhund/waschbar)

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Lynx (eurasischer luchs)

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Wild cat (wildkatze)

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Predatory birds (greifvoegel/raubvoegel):

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  • Eagles (adler)
  • Golden eagle (steinadler)
  • White tailed eagle (seeadler)
  • Osprey (fischadler)
  • Buzzard (bussarde): common buzzard (mausebussard), rough-legged buzzard (raufussbussard), honey buzzard (wespenbussard)
  • Falcon (falken): kestrel (turmfalke), peregrine falcon (wanderfalke), hobby (baumfalke)
  • Hawks (habichte): goshawk (habicht/huehnerhabicht), sparrow hawk (sperber)
  • Kites (milane): red kite (rotmilan), black kite (schwarzmilan)
  • Harrier (weihen): hen harrier (kornweihe), Montagu’s harrier (wiesenweihe), marsh harrier (rohrweihe)
  • Owls (Kaeuze): tawny owl (waldkauz), little owl (steinkauz), boreal/Tengmalm’s owl (rauhfusskauz), pygmy owl (sperlingskauz), long-eared owl (waldohreule), short-eared owl (sumpfohreule), barn owl (schleieruele), eagle owl (uhu)
  • Crows/jays (kraehen/haeher): common raven (kolkrabe), jackdaw (dohle), alpine chough (alpendohle), rook (saatkraehe), carrion crow (rabenkraehe), hooded crow (nebelkraehe), magpie (elster), jay (eichelhaeher)
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Marmot (murmeltiere)

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Gestation period: 6 weeks
Males: Bar
Females: Katze
Young: Affen
Bavarian name: mankei
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Seals (robben)

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Snipe (bekassine)

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Capercaillie (auerhahn)

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  • Weighs 10-12 lbs

- Hen is 1/3 smaller

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Black grouse (birkhahn)

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Rackelhahn cock (rackelhahn)

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Hunting dog categories:

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  • Pointers (vorstehhunde)
  • Flushers (stoeberhunde)
  • Earth dogs (erdhunde)
  • Hounds/beagles (jagende hunde/laufhunde)
  • Tracking dogs (schweisshunde)
  • Retrievers/water dogs (retrievers/wasserhunde)
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Pointers (vorstehhunde):

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  • German longhair (Deutsch langhaar)
  • German roughhair (Deutsch stichelhaar)
  • German shorthaired pointer (Deutsch kurzhaar)
  • German wirehair (Deutsch drahthaar)
  • Griffon (griffon)
  • Large Munsterlander (Grosser Munsterlander)
  • Small Munsterlander (Kleiner Munsterlander)
  • Poodle pointer (Pudelpointer)
  • Weimaraner (Waimaraner)
  • English setter (English setter)
  • Gordon setter (Gordon setter)
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Flushers (stoeberhunde):

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  • Irish setter (Irish setter)
  • Cocker spaniel (Cocker spaniel)
  • Springer spaniel (Springer spaniel)
  • German Springer spaniel (Deutscher Wachtelhund)
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Earth dogs (erdhunde):

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  • Dachshund (dackel/teckel)
  • Fox terrier (Drahthaar foxterrier/glatthaar foxterrier)
  • Hunting terrier (Deutscher jagdterrier)
  • Long-haired dachshund (Langhaarddackel)
  • Rough-haired dachshund (Rauhaardackel)
  • Short-haired dachshund (Kurzhaardackel)
  • Miniature Dachshund (Zwergdackel)
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Hounds (Jagende hunde/laufhunde):

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  • Alpine Dachsbracke (Alpenlandische Dachbracke)
  • Westphalian Dachsbracke (Westphalische Dachsbracke)
  • German Bracke (Deutsche Bracke)
  • Bloodhounds (Schweisshunde): Bavarian Mountain Bloodhound (Bayerischer Gebirgsschweisshund), Hanover Bloodhound (Hannoverscher Schweisshund)
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Retrievers (Retrievers)

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  • Labrador Retriever (Golden Retriever)

- Golden Retriever (Golden Retriever)

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