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Species of the Season Challenge Home Page

Below are the species selected for the 2009 Spring/Summer Species of  Season Challenge

Congratulations to the winner of the 2008 Fall/Winter
Species of the Season Challenge
Neale Blank
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submissions

Peregrine Falcon

Northern Flying Squirrel

Common Gray Fox

Greater Short-Horned Lizard

Peregrin Falcon Norther Flying Squirrel Common Gray Fox Greater Short-horned Lizard
Photo courtesy of USFS Photo by the National Geographic Society Photo by Patti McNeal  
Harlequin Duck Smooth Green Snake
Harlequin Duck Smooth Green Snake
Photo by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Photo by Rustin Bird

Arrow Click here to Enter an Observation or View Your Scorecard
    - You can enter and track your observations of the Species of the Season.
  
Information on the distribution and relative abundance of wildlife species in the state is valuable to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD).  It helps us determine if a species may be in need of special attention or if we need to increase baseline inventories.  A number of species have been indentified in the
State Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (posted on the WGFD website) as species of greatest conservation need because information about them and where they occur is lacking.  The State Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy describes what we do know and the information we need.  Wildlife observers can greatly increase our understanding Wyoming wildlife, whether you are a weekend enthusiast, an occasional visitor to the state, or a professional biologist by reporting sightings of these species.

To address this information need, WGFD is focusing on six species (2 mammals, 2 birds, and 2 herps) during the Spring/Summer and four species (2 mammals and 2 birds) during the Fall/Winter Species of the Season Challenge.  The species during the Spring and Summer of 2009 are: 

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 Arrow  Common Gray Fox  
 Arrow  Greater Short-Horned Lizard  
 Arrow  Harlequin Duck  
 Arrow  Northern Flying Squirrel  
 Arrow  Peregrine Falcon  
 Arrow  Smooth Green Snake  

Four new species will be selected for Fall and Winter 2009.  To learn more about the species and how to find them, click on the Species links above. 

As encouragement, we will be presenting the number of observations individuals report with special recognition of top observers each season. 

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