TRACK CHARACTERISTICS LIST

Drawing - full track

Toe number showing

Front pad number showing

Back pad number showing

Width (widest part of track) size

 

Length (heel to maiil) size, drawing

Front track size, drawing

Back track size, drawing

Track includes nails? excludes nails?

Warning; Do not include foot drag

 

Stride - toe of one print to heel of next

Track in material -(mud, gravel, dirt, leaf and needle litter, snow, other)

Trail pattern (Straight, wavy, meandering)

Gait (walking, trotting, loping, galloping)

Gait

Registration (alternate, single)

Pattern (2-2 (one slightly to side)

"Two prints side by side, one slightly ahead of the other, a space, two more prints, a space etc." p. 25 Rezendes

2-2 one directly above the other

bounding pattern

3-4 and 4-4 (weasel family)

Tail drag?

Needles in trail drag?

Speed (juxtaposition of hind and forelegs)

Trail use

Fresh

Repetitive (skunk, deer)

Direction of travel

Special smell (describe):

 

REMEMBER: Snow can melt back and make print appear larger

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