Bald Eagle by C.S. Bald Eagles have yellow beaks, yellow feet and brown wings. Bald eagles are awake in the day. Bald eagles live for 20-30 years. Eagles eat fish, rodents and dead animals. Eagles have 3 eggs. Bald eagles migrate. Eagles communicate by saying "are". It sounds like a squeaky noise. It lives mostly at seacoasts or rivers or lakes.		Eagles are awake in the day and flying in the sky getting food to live in the wild in the air with eagles in the sky above the clouds.
Bibliography: 1. Soaring With the Wind, by Gail Gibbon 2. www.nwf.org/wildlife/baldeagle/behavior.cfm Back to top of page

Barn Owl by E.W. A barn owl is a bird. Barn owls fly and glide. They have a white face shaped like a heart. Barn owls have 2 to 6 babies. Barn owls have a lot of sounds. Some of them are bill snapping, hissing and grunts. A barn owl lives five to eleven years in the wild. They live in a tree or a barn or in fields. Barn owls have a few predators. They are eagles, hawks, foxes and crows. Barn owls eat a lot of animals. Some of them are insects, mice, voles, shrews and fish.		Barns for homes and rodents for food nights are like days they are out at night they wait until it is dark likes mice
Bibliography: 1. Owls, Owls 2. www.bsc-eoc.org/regional/barnowlfacts.html 3. http://www.lpzoo.com Back to top of page

Black Bear by D.A. Black bears have a short tail. Black bears weigh 475 pounds. Black bears live in North America. They are a wake at night. They live 20 to 25 years. Their predators are brown bears. They have one to five babies. They eat berries.		Black fur and eyes and round ears.
Bibliography: 1. Black Bears by Marcia Freeman 2. Bears by John Bonnett Wexo 3. Peterson First Guides, Mammals by Peter Alden 4. www.enchantedlearning.com Back to top of page

Black Capped Chickadee by I.J. Black capped chickadees are birds. They have a black cap and bib. They have white cheeks and a white belly. They have a short plump body and a gray and black tail. A black-capped chickadee is 4.7 to 5.75 inches long. Eight inches is the wingspan. Black-capped chickadees live in Maine. Their habitats are mixed forests, open forests, fields, orchards, parks, gardens and urban areas. It eats sunflower seeds, suet, insect eggs, larva, insects, small berries, nuts, spiders, black berries, ragweed, spider eggs, weed seeds, goldenrod, wild fruits, blueberries and wild cherries. It flies in a flock. Its predators are Cooper's hawk, sharp shinned hawk and great horned owl. Black-capped chickadees make the sound of their name and they sound like this "chickadee-dee-dee". Female chickadees have 6 to 16 babies a year. All chickadees can hang upside down, hop to search for food and climb up a nearly vertical tree.		Can see home in cut down tree and they know a good spot to dream and eat eat and eat
Bibliography: 1. The Bird Book by Neil and Karen Dawe 2. Critters of Maine Pocket Guide by the Wildlife Forever and Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 3. www.menature.com/Black-CappedChickadee.htm Back to top of page

Bobcat by S.M. Bobcats are mammals. Bobcats have tufts of hair on their ears. They have one to two cubs. It sounds like a lion. They have 1 to 2 babies. It lives 10 to 14 years. It eats fish. It gets places by running.	brown spots on its body catches rabbits and eats birds their teeth are sharp
Bibliography: 1.www.kidsplanet.org 2.www.enchanted learning.com 3.www.montanatrappers.org Back to top of page

Coyote by W.M. Coyotes are mammals. They are 43 to 53 inches and 30 to 40 pounds. Coyotes are gray and reddish gray. Coyotes live 8 years. Coyotes hunt for food. Coyotes teeth are long. They have 4 to 7 cubs. Coyotes run or walk. Coyotes can eat a deer and little animals.		coyotes run fast often the mom takes care of them. yodels often it hunts for food they eat animals scare animals
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Gray Squirrel by S.L. Gray squirrels are mammals.They are six inches long. They have a bushy tail that is black, brown and white. A gray squirrel's habitat is pine forests, ground, trees, deserts and nut trees. Its predators are foxes, raccoons, hawks, owls and bobcats. A squirrel has 3 up to 5 babies. When babies are first born only 3 or 4 survive. Squirrels live in oak trees, hickory trees and walnut trees. It sounds like a hamster kind of squeal. A squirrel eats seeds, berries, acorns, walnuts, beechnuts, pine cones, eggs, baby birds and insects.		special animal very quick it climbs trees sometimes it races other squirrels runs fast easy for squirrels to win a race listens for danger.
Bibliography: 1. Squirrels, by Becky Olien 2. www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/web/Species/asquirrelgray.html Back to top of page

Harbor Seal by T.J. Harbor seals are marine mammals. A harbor seal has a rounded body. It is black or gray with white spots on its back. They have flippers. They weigh 110 to 375 pounds. They eat fish and squid. It swims in the water. Its lifespan is about 25 to 30 years. They bark like a dog. They have 1 baby.		had all fish and squid all seals were really begging for fish or squid really swimming everywhere in water and laying on a rock.
Bibliography: 1. Seals by Eric S. Grace 2. Wildlife of the World 10 by Marshall Cavendish 3. www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/pinniped/Harborsealprintout.shtml Back to top of page

Herring Gull by R.C. Herring gulls are birds. They have 2 or 3 young. They eat fish. They are awake at day. They mew, laugh or wail. It has webbed feet and has white and gray feathers. A herring gull has a yellow bill. It's 20 inches long. Herring gulls would migrate in winter. They live at seacoasts, oceans, lakes and rivers.		get fish up in the sky little light
Bibliography: 1. www.encyclopedia.com 2. www.rspb.org.uk 3. www.yahooligans.yahoo.com 4. Miklos Udvardy, The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds Back to top of page

Lobster by M.F. A lobster is red and black. They eat mussels, crabs, clams, worms, snails, flounder and other lobsters. It lives to be 100 years old. It's awake at night. They live in the sea. It communicates by snapping its claws.		likes crabs or fish but it doesn't like people swims with its tail everywhere and runs with its legs in the sea.
Bibliography: 1. www.octopus.gma.org/lobsters/allaboutlobsters/society.html 2. www.enchantedlearning.com 3. www.parl.ns.ca/lobster/lifecycle.htm Back to top of page

Phoebe by C.B. A phoebe is a bird. It is seven inches and olive green. It wags its tail. Phoebes eat bees, butterflies, grasshoppers and flies. In winter it migrates. It has four or five babies. It says "phoebe". It lives in woods near streams, cliffs, bridges and buildings.		proud bird that is olive green has a black wing eats live bugs on its tail it is gray it has a big beak lays eggs.
Bibliography: 1.www.natzoo.si.edu/Conservationandscience/migratoryBirds/Featured-Birds/ Back to top of page

Porcupine by J.H. Porcupines are a mammal. Some porcupines live up to 20 years. Porcupines live in forests. Porcupines run on their feet. Porcupines put their tail up. Porcupines eat plants. Porcupines have quills. Porcupines have 2 babies.
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Puffin by S.Z. A puffin is a bird. It has black and white feathers with small black claws, orange legs and webbed feet. Their predator is a polar bear. It lives 29 years. They eat fish. It lives at very, very cold islands.They move by waddling. It has one egg a year.		puffins protect their baby under their feet father brings the food father and mom protects their baby also it likes fish and knows it loves its baby
Bibliography: 1.Puffin, by Gibbons 2.www.mainebirding.net/puffin/ Back to top of page

Red Fox by D.R. Red foxes are mammals. They have sharp curved claws. Red foxes live1 to 2 years. They live in plains, deserts and forests. Red fox babies are called kits. They have 4 to 8 kits. Red foxes eat crows, fruit, moles and voles. Their predators are bears and wolves. Red foxes hunt in winter to survive. They are awake at night.		Reddish mammal in its lair eats fruit, moles and voles dies at 1 or 2 years fast runners outside excellent smellers
Bibliography: 1.Red Foxes, by Victor Gentle 2.www.montanatray Back to top of page

Red Squirrel by D.S. A red squirrel is a mammal. It is reddish-colored. It weighs 7 to 9 ounces. A squirrel's body is 11 to 13 inches long. Squirrels' habitats are pine and hardwood forests. They eat seeds, nuts, berries, eggs, baby birds, insects, acorns, worms and pinecones. Squirrels move by jumping, climbing and flying. A red squirrel's predators are foxes, cats, hawks, coyotes, weasels, marten and bobcats.		see a tree that they like quickly they jump to a tree usually they climb trees it likes to glide in the air round and round one jumps out of the tree reddish colored on their back eat seeds, eggs, baby birds, acorns, pinecones luckily some are good.
Bibliography: 1.www.dht.state.mn.us/Snapshots/mammals/redsquirrel.htm Back to top of page

Skunk by A.P. Skunks are black and white. They have bushy tails, short legs and a long snout. They eat insects, rodents, reptiles, small mammals, worms, eggs, fish, fruit and plants. They live in a den. They have 10 to 4 babies. It moves on its feet.		skunks spray kills insects under a rock night hunter keeps other animals away.
Bibliography: 1.www.enchantedlearning.com 2. www.eduscapes.com 3. Peter Alden, Mammals 4. Timothy Levi Biel, Skunks and their Relatives Back to top of page

Wood Duck by J.M.
A wood duck is a bird. It is medium sized but in flight its long tail makes this duck appear larger. It's colorful. A wood duck lives in a down lined tree hole often high above the ground. It lives thirteen years. It lays twelve eggs. It lives in backwaters of rivers and streams and woodland lakes. They sound like an alarm call. They eat whatever floats in their mouths.
Bibliography: 1.www.ducks.org/ Back to top of page

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