Skull ID -species ID and which "vore" am I?
Habits
Tracks, skins, and scat ID
Habitat
Maine Critters
Terminology
It's the Law
Melting Pot
100
White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
100
Seasonal movement of animals from one region to another.
What is migration?
100
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
100
A non-native species that significantly modifies or disrupts the ecosystems it colonizes
What is an invasive species?
100
Maine State Mammal
What is the Moose (Alces alces)?
100
Define extirpation
What is a species that no longer exists in a chose geographic area though still though it still exists elsewhere?
100
The age at which you need an adult fishing or hunting license.
What is 16?
100
Landlocked Salmon
200
Racoon (Procyon lotor)
200
Black Bears and members of the weasel family have this special reproductive adaptation that delays pregnancy if the animal is injured, sick, not in good health.
What is delayed implantation of the embryo?
200
Porcupine (Erithizon dorsatum)
200
Loss of connectivity of forested habitat often due to human disturbance.
What is forest fragmentation?
200
Maine State insect
Honey Bee
200
When animals are most active at duck and dawn
What is crepusular?
200
The daily legal hunting hours for wild birds and mammals during their legal hunting seasons.
What is thirty (30) minutes before sunrise and thirty (30) minutes after sunset? (with some exceptions for coyote, raccoon, migratory bird hunting)
200
Name an extirpated species that once lived in Maine?
What is: Caribou, Mountain lion, Timber Rattlesnake
300
Beaver (Castor canadensis)
300
Black Bears do this to survive Maine winters
What is to go into seasonal dormancy or torpor?
300
Racoon (Procyon lotor)
300
Name 1 state listed endangered species that uses Essential Habitat in Maine.
What is: Piping Plover, Roseate Tern, and Least Tern.
300
Maine State fish
Land-locked Salmon
300
Term for areas that currently or historically provide physical or biological features essential to the conservation of an endangered or threatened species in Maine, and which may require special management considerations. Examples of areas that could qualify for designation are nest sites or important feeding areas.
Essential Habitat
300
These are the ways you can take a Black Bear legally in Maine during their designated seasons.
What is trapping, hunting with dogs, hunting with bait, and general hunting season?
300
The term for the illegal take of wildlife.
What is Poaching?
400
Coyote (Canus latrans)
400
limiting factors (4) that combine to define the ability of a species to thrive in a specific habitat
What are food, shelter, water and space?
400
Snapping Turtle
400
The New England Cottontail lives in this type of habitat.
What is early successional or shrubland habitat?
400
The 3 species of reptiles listed on the Maine endangered species list.
What are the Black Racer, Blanding's Turtle, and Box Turtle?
400
The term for a species whose status provides information on the overall condition of the ecosystem and of other species in that ecosystem.
What is an indicator species?
400
You must do this if you catch a collared or earmarked animal.
What is contact your regional wildlife biologist and return the collar and tags and provide the location of capture.
400
These are examples of cold water fish species found in Maine.
What are Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Splake and Togue?
500
Hare (Snowshoe or Jack Rabbit) (Lepus americanus)
500
3 species that are true hibernators in Maine
What are the little brown bat, jumping mouse, and groundhog
500
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leusocephalus)
500
Evidence of these 3 species are used to define a significant vernal pool.
Fairy Shrimp, Spotted Salamader (eggs), Wood frog (eggs)
500
Name the 3 species of mammals listed as endangered in Maine
What are the New England Cottontail, Long-eared Bat, Little Brown Bat
500
The term for conserving a species outside of its native habitat or off site
Ex situ conservation
500
You must do this every time you pull a boat out of a waterbody to prevent the spread of invasive aquatic species.(hint: 3 words)
What is clean, drain, and dry?
500
This anadromous keystone species is known to "tie the ocean, rivers, and lakes together" and is an important bait fish for the lobster industry.
What are Alewives?