Tracking Tips
Tracking Tips: Fishers Aren’t Cats
Though it’s often called “fisher cat” or “black cat,” the fisher (Pekanis pennanti) rarely fishes and is not a cat. The fisher’s only likeness to the…
Tracking Tips: Relief From Herbivory
While performing field necropsies on moose, Maine biologist Lee Kantar has observed as many as 90,000 winter ticks on a single victim. Such moose are anemic and malnourished. With vital fat…
Tracking Tips: Grazing Bears
By the end of April, black bears have shrugged off winter’s dormancy and are getting hungry. They may get lucky and discover a winter-killed deer and get to indulge in its valuable…
Tracking Tips: Snow Birds: Staying North for the Winter
Temperatures may plunge to 50 degrees below zero on Nunavik Quebec’s Ungava peninsula. But there, at the northernmost edge of our northern woodlands, lives a species of bird that toughs…
Tracking Tips: Wee Beasties Watch Out!
The familiar red fox is the most widely distributed carnivore on the planet. Throughout North America, I’ve admired these handsome animals in arctic Canada’s barrenlands, southern…