Reader's Digest North American WildlifeSusan J. Wernert This volume is an illustrated guide to 2,000 plants and animals. Every species is presented in full color; this reference contains thousands of identification capsules, range maps, and habitat symbols and a special 32 page guide to wildlife communities. Spanning the land from Florida to Alaska, it embraces field, forest, pond, prairie -- all the natural communities that make our North American flora and fauna so splendidly diverse. This book is really two in one -- both a valuable at-home reference and an extraordinary usable guide to the most common and conspicuous wild plants and animals of our continent. It is specially planned for quick and easy identification. |
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American anal fin animals bird bloom blue bogs bracts branches breeding brown chaparral clustered at base clustered atop color conifers dark dense deserts dorsal fin edges eggs feed female Fern fields fish flat flowerheads flowers white flowers yellow forests freshwater fronds fruits gills grasslands gray green greenish Habitat hairy insects lakes lance-shaped larvae leaf leaflets leaves in pairs leaves oval Length lobed look male mammals marshes meadows moist mollusks mountain mushrooms nest North America open woods operculum orange pale pectoral fins pelvic fins petals Pine pink plants plastron pollinated ponds prairies purple ray flowers rocks rocky rounded Salamander sandy scrublands seas seeds sepals shallow shell slender slopes snakes soil species spikes spines spores spots stalk stamens stem streambanks streams stripe swamps tail tall tepals thickets toothed trees tundra underside usually waste places wide WILDFLOWERS wings winter woodlands