References for Animal Tracking

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Hi! We are Nick and Valerie Wisniewski on behalf of expertvillage.com. We are here to talk about animal tracks and sign and if you need more information, please visit our website walnuthilltracking.com. Here in front of us we have some different kinds of animal sign. Tracking isn’t just about tracks it is also about the other clues that we have to animal’s life and the forest. At one time being able to read that information was a matter of survival. With some skill and some practice you can learn how to do that again. Here we have some food that was opened by different animals. These are hickory shells and we can tell by the way they were opened and the incisor marks, the teeth marks on the shells, these hickory nuts were opened by a chipmunk. Here we have some spruce counts. These were cleaned. They were fed on fed by a red squirrel that was looking for the little pine nuts that grow in there. These hickory nuts were opened by birds; probably something like a white breasted nut hatch. You can also tell that by the way the nuts were opened. We have some feathers here of a bird that was killed by a red fox. You can tell by the damage to the feathers and the crushing of the quills. You can tell by the spacing of the teeth marks where the feather was damaged. But those are the canines of a carnivore. In this case, a red fox that took the bird. Learning how to read animal tracks and sign is something that you can be helped with some good references. Valerie is showing you a field guide to mammal track by Alice J. This book was published in 1954 and it is still one of the best books for overall exposure to different tracks and sign of different mammals, bird’s even amphibians and insects in the United States. Next we have tracking in the art of seeing how to read animal tracking sign by Paul Resendez. A more recent book probably considered the finest tracking book available. In terms of interpreting the way animals move and the patterns they leave on the ground, a very indispensable book is Animals in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge. Learning how to rt4ead animal tracks and sign can be an incredible experience and can teach you much about the animals in the forest.

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