Name: ______Grade: ______

Alderfly (nymph, adult)

Backswimmer

Black Fly (nymph, adult)

Caddisfly (nymph, adult)

Cranefly (nymph, adult)

Damselfly (nymph, adult)

Dobsonfly larvae

Dragonfly (nymph, adult)

Mayfly nymph

Midge nymph

Mosquito (nymph, adult)

Riffle beetle

Stonefly (nymph, adult)

Water penny nymph

Water strider

Water beetle (nymph, adult)

Waterboatman

Horsehair worm

Planaria

Gilled snail

Pouch snail

Crayfish

Leech

Pacific lamprey

Scud

Sculpin

Sucker

Belted kingfisher

California gull

Mourning dove

Acorn woodpecker

Three spine stickleback fish


Snowy Egret

Great Blue Heron

Raccoon

Opossum

Scrub jay

Pacific tree frog

Red tailed hawk

Turkey vulture

Tule Elk

Coyote

Mountain Lion

Deer Mouse

Brush rabbit

Gray fox

Spotted skunk

California quail

Bobcat

California ground squirrel

Black-tailed deer

Anna’s hummingbird

Red-sided garter snake

Banana slug

Dusky footed wood rat

California slender salamander

Red-legged frog

Bullfrog

California vole

Pocket Mouse

Pocket Gopher

Meadow mouse

Gopher snake

Rattlesnake

Fence Lizard

Western grebe

Mallard duck

Double crested cormorant

Peregrine falcon

American crow

Red-winged blackbird

Coho salmon

Steelhead trout

Northwestern pond turtle

Long eared bat

California tiger salamander

Little brown bat

Western burrowing owl

Barn owl

Name: ______Grade: ______

Field Guide

Name of your organism: ______

Provide or create a picture of your organism. Your picture needs to be detailed enough to identify actual specimens in the field.

What eats your organism? ______

______


What does your organism eat? ______

______

Use the information above to draw a food chain for your organism:

Describe the habitat in which your species lives (Where is it found? Where does it find food, water and shelter? Does it live in different places at different times of year?): ______

______

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Name 3 characteristics that can help you identify your organism in the field and differentiate it from other organisms:

1)  ______

2)  ______

3)  ______

Describe your organism’s life cycle. For each major stage of its life, provide a picture AND a description of the organism at that stage of its life.

Is there anything currently threatening your organism’s survival (the threat may directly affect your organism or may affect your organism’s habitat)? If so, describe the cause of the threat and if any special attempts that are being made to help this organism survive. ______

______

______

______

______

References: List the websites and books you used to create this report.

1)  ______

2)  ______

3)  ______