Track Finder: Identifying Mammal Tracks in Eastern North America
Identify mammal tracks of the eastern United States with this pocket-size guide.

Whether you’re hiking with your family, on a camping trip, or spending time in your backyard, you’re sure to notice a variety of animal tracks. If you’re curious about these prints and the wildlife that created them—from mice and squirrels to bobcats and bears—then Track Finder by Dorcas S. Miller is just what you need. With the handy, easy-to-use format, you can identify common and noteworthy animal tracks in the eastern half of the United States and Canada.

Perfect for hikers, campers, beginning trackers, and anyone with an interest in nature, the booklet introduces more than 50 of the most common and important mammals to know. Information about each critter’s range, gait, trail, habitat, and tips for comparing similar species point you in the right direction. Life-size track illustrations, along with depictions of the animals themselves, by Cherie Hunter Day help to ensure that you positively identify the tracks you see.

Book Features:

  • Beginner’s guide to animal track identification
  • More than 50 species of common and important mammals
  • Professional illustrations with key markings for identification
  • Small format that fits into a pocket or pack

This guide is applicable to eastern Canada and the US states of Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

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Track Finder: Identifying Mammal Tracks in Eastern North America
Identify mammal tracks of the eastern United States with this pocket-size guide.

Whether you’re hiking with your family, on a camping trip, or spending time in your backyard, you’re sure to notice a variety of animal tracks. If you’re curious about these prints and the wildlife that created them—from mice and squirrels to bobcats and bears—then Track Finder by Dorcas S. Miller is just what you need. With the handy, easy-to-use format, you can identify common and noteworthy animal tracks in the eastern half of the United States and Canada.

Perfect for hikers, campers, beginning trackers, and anyone with an interest in nature, the booklet introduces more than 50 of the most common and important mammals to know. Information about each critter’s range, gait, trail, habitat, and tips for comparing similar species point you in the right direction. Life-size track illustrations, along with depictions of the animals themselves, by Cherie Hunter Day help to ensure that you positively identify the tracks you see.

Book Features:

  • Beginner’s guide to animal track identification
  • More than 50 species of common and important mammals
  • Professional illustrations with key markings for identification
  • Small format that fits into a pocket or pack

This guide is applicable to eastern Canada and the US states of Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

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Track Finder: Identifying Mammal Tracks in Eastern North America

Track Finder: Identifying Mammal Tracks in Eastern North America

Track Finder: Identifying Mammal Tracks in Eastern North America

Track Finder: Identifying Mammal Tracks in Eastern North America

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Overview

Identify mammal tracks of the eastern United States with this pocket-size guide.

Whether you’re hiking with your family, on a camping trip, or spending time in your backyard, you’re sure to notice a variety of animal tracks. If you’re curious about these prints and the wildlife that created them—from mice and squirrels to bobcats and bears—then Track Finder by Dorcas S. Miller is just what you need. With the handy, easy-to-use format, you can identify common and noteworthy animal tracks in the eastern half of the United States and Canada.

Perfect for hikers, campers, beginning trackers, and anyone with an interest in nature, the booklet introduces more than 50 of the most common and important mammals to know. Information about each critter’s range, gait, trail, habitat, and tips for comparing similar species point you in the right direction. Life-size track illustrations, along with depictions of the animals themselves, by Cherie Hunter Day help to ensure that you positively identify the tracks you see.

Book Features:

  • Beginner’s guide to animal track identification
  • More than 50 species of common and important mammals
  • Professional illustrations with key markings for identification
  • Small format that fits into a pocket or pack

This guide is applicable to eastern Canada and the US states of Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780912550510
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Publication date: 10/08/2024
Series: Nature Study Guides
Edition description: 3rd Revised ed.
Pages: 64
Product dimensions: 5.88(w) x 4.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Dorcas S. Miller, founding president of the Maine Master Naturalist Program, has written more than a dozen books, including Berry Finder, Constellation Finder, Scat Finder, Track Finder, and Winter Weed Finder. Her Finder books have sold more than half a million copies.

Cherie Hunter Day is a writer and an illustrator. An award-winning haiku and tanka poet, Cherie is the author of Apology Moon and The Horse with One Blue Eye, as well as the editor of Mariposa, the journal of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. Her nature illustrations have appeared in such books as Berry Finder and Track Finder.

Read an Excerpt

Striped Skunk
Mephitis mephitis

Habitat: Fields, open woodlands, yards

  • Front nails longer and better designed for digging than spotted
  • Omnivorous, but insects primary food; often meanders, digging for grubs in lawns and leaving shallow holes

Both spotted and striped

  • Heel pad shows in hind but may not in front print
  • Den in cold/snow, but may emerge on warm days
  • Direct register, toed-in walk when foraging (right)
  • Lope (Linear Group of 4, p. 53) when moving quickly (below)

Eastern Spotted Skunk
Spilogale putorius

Habitat:Forest or areas with thick cover

  • Front nails shorter, better designed for climbing
  • Can climb trees (pads on soles may also help)
  • Omnivorous; mammals (including mice, rabbits) larger part of diet than with striped skunk

Sometimes bounds to cover ground quickly

Table of Contents

To Use This Book

Definitions

Pattern Key

Print Shape Guide

The Mammals

The Family Tree: How Mammals Are Related

Tips for Tracking

Index

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