Mammals
This is the largest land animal in the Poconos.
What is the black bear?
This large turtle is well known for its intimidating bite.
What is the Common Snapping Turtle.
This is the most common toad found all over the state.
What is the American Toad?
This bird is commonly found on tables during Thanksgiving.
What is the Turkey?
This fish is well known for both its large mouth and size.
What is the Large Mouth Bass?
This cat sized animal is known for spraying a terrible smelling liquid as a defense mechanism.
What is the striped skunk?
This snake is well known for its distinctive rattle sound.
What is the Timber Rattlesnake?
This frog is a common sound during the spring, where its loud, peeping calls are heard for miles.
What is the Spring Peeper?
This bird is typically found swimming on lakes or ponds, occasionally diving for food. Males have a bright green head and white body, whereas females are assorted browns.
What is the Mallard?
This fish has a distinctive "rainbow" color.
What is the Rainbow Trout?
This water loving mammal loves to play, and can often be seen chasing, wrestling, and sliding down snowy hills with others of its species.
What is the Northern River Otter?
This skink is a common reptile with 5 vertical lines down its back.
What is the Common Five Lined Skink?
This critter is known as the largest frog in Pennsylvania.
What is the American Bullfrog?
This bird is the state bird of Pennsylvania.
What is the Ruffed Grouse?
This fish is the largest catfish in the Pennsylvania, and one of our largest fish in general.
What is the Flathead Catfish?
This animal is not only the smallest mammal in the Poconos, but all of North America.
What is the Pygmy Shrew?
This snake has a unique defense mechanism of playing dead.
What is the Eastern Hog-nosed Snake?
This salamander is the largest in North America, and is found at the bottoms of riverbeds and creeks. It is also the state amphibian.
What is the Eastern Hellbender?
This bird is known as the fastest critter on the planet, reaching speeds just over 200 mph (320 kph.)
What is the Peregrine Falcon?
This family of fish don't have jaws. instead, their mouths look like cookie cutters that cut holes into other fish for food.
What are Lampreys?
This rodent lives almost exclusively in coniferous forests, eating the seeds from the cones of trees.
What is the Red Squirrel?
This is the only softshell turtle found in Pennsylvania, residing in the Delaware water gap.
What is the Spiny Softshell Turtle?
This critter is the only species of newt in Pennsylvania, and is bright red during adolescence.
What is the Eastern Newt?
This bird is the most commonly spread owl in North America, and its call is the stereotypical "hoot."
What is the Great Horned Owl?
This eel is the only eel species in North America.
What is the American Eel?