Camden House Publishing Inc.
Charlotte Vt, 1992 p, 15
SIGNS TO OBSERVE (MAMMALS)
Nests
Size
Contents
Description
Drawing
Location (underground, tree, other)
Droppings or scat
Size
Contents
Entrance holes
Size (in/cm?)
Neat?
Medium (e.g. pine needles)
Food remains
Piles of chewed nut and cone pieces (middens)
Cache - stored food
Nipped twigs
Cut plants (Browse)
Special signs
Scratchings - Claw marks on trees
Incisor marks on plants or vegetables
Debarking
Lodges (beaver)
Cut trees (beaver)
Dams (beaver)
Scent mounds
Slides (less than 4 inches, greater than 4 inches)(weasel, otter)
Beds (deer)
Runs (deer)
Rut pit (deer)
Digs
Round holes in needles (chipmunks)
Tunnels
Bank burrows
Lined depressions in ground ("forms")
Trail or corridor
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