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Deschutes National Forest
1001 SW Emkay Drive
Bend, OR 97702
(541) 383-5300
Ochoco National Forest
3160 N.E. 3rd Street
Prineville, OR 97754
(541) 416-6500
Crooked River National Grassland
813 S.W. Hwy. 97
Madras, OR 97741
(541) 475-9272
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Wildlife
For Kids
Wildlife creatures have funny ways of doing things. See how many
of these fun facts you know, then test your friends and family.
Click on an image for a larger size image to print and color (use
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For the Pacific western big-eared bat, caves with the proper
environment are essential. Although both sexes hibernate there
during winter, only females congregate in summer to bear and
raise young. |
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Butterflies such as blues, swallowtails, skippers, and sulphurs
will often cluster on the damp soil of mud puddles, seeps, and
sandbars to lap mineral-laden moisture. |
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| Solitary except during breeding, the American dipper feeds
on aquatic insects and larvae, aquatic worms, fish eggs, and
even small fish up to 3 inches long. |
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One of the bird world's most extraordinary rituals is the
western grebe's courtship behavior of skittering in unison across
the water. |
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The American kestrel can hover in midair while searching for
rodent prey on the ground. |
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Feigning an injured wing while staying just out of reach is
the killdeer's way of luring a predator from a nest or young. |
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| The common nighthawk feeds on the wing at twilight and during
the day by using an erratic flight path and gaping mouth to
sweep flying insects - from gnats to moths - out of the air. |
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The rubber boa can be found within several hundred yards from
water in a variety of habitats. It mainly eats small rodents,
but may also take lizards, salamanders, snakes and birds. |
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Underground during hot, dry, or freezing weather, the adult
long-toed salamander migrates to ponds and lakes to breed between
late February and early April. |
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The 3-inch long water shrew, an accomplished swimmer and diver
in streams, lakes, and marshes, will eat its own weight of aquatic
insects and small fish each day. |
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| Wild rainbow trout spawn where stream gravel is less than
2" in diameter, and where water velocity is between 1.6
and 3.0 feet per second (fps). For comparison, a human walks
briskly at 4.5 fps. |
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Like a hotel registry, shoreline mud can document the wetland
visits of raccoon, Wilson's snipe, great-blue heron, and mallard. |
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The black-backed woodpecker characteristically chips away
the bark around its nest?hole in a live lodgepole pine tree.
At least 60 Central Oregon animals use tree cavities as ANIMAL
INNs for shelter or foraging. |
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Approximately half the summer diet of the western fence lizard
is crickets and grasshoppers. In nature's food chain, predatory
birds, snakes, and shrews may prey on the lizard. |
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| The Wilson's phalarope swims or wades in a circle to stir
mosquito larvae and other food items to the surface of the water
vortex. |
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There are approximately 40 sandhill crane breeding pairs within
the geographic area of this viewing guide, and 1,150 pairs within
the state. Oregon's two largest concentrations are at Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge and Sycan Marsh. |
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