Wildlife Explorations
Reserve Wildlife resources here
Project Wild
Flying Wild, Project Wild Aquatic, Project Wild, & Project Learning Tree
These publications are wonderful resources for conservation minded educators. They offer a variety of comprehensive and engaging activities for K-12 that align with Wyoming science standards.
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Ecology
Winter: An Ecological Handbook
by James Halfpenny
Grade 9-12
"Winter: An Ecological Handbook" is a guide for anyone who is curious—or needs to know—about winter. Naturalists, winter sports enthusiasts, residents of cold climates, and others who deal with winter on a daily basis will find this an enlightening as well as useful book.
Field Guides
Critters of Wyoming Pocket Guide (Wildlife Pocket Guides)
Grade 4-8
50 Wyoming critters, including birds and mammals. Beautiful photographs and neat-to-know details are complemented by information about each critter's tracks
Mammals of the Rocky Mountains
by Fisher, Pattie, & Hartson
A colorfully illustrated field guide to 91 mammals common to the wide ranges of the Rocky Mountains. Full-page color photos, color illustrations, tracks and range maps are just some of the components of this guide
Peterson First Guide to Mammals of North America
by Peter Alden
Mountain State Mammals
by Ron Russo
Pocket-sized guide to wild mammals of Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona. Because wild animals are often elusive, this book includes keys to help you identify animals by their signs, such as footprints, droppings, skulls, jaws, burrows, nests, and scratch or chew marks.
by Ron Russo
Pocket-sized guide to wild mammals of Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona. Because wild animals are often elusive, this book includes keys to help you identify animals by their signs, such as footprints, droppings, skulls, jaws, burrows, nests, and scratch or chew marks.
Pond Life (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press)
This guide describes and illustrates, in full color, the plants and animals that live in or near ponds, lakes, streams, and wetlands. It includes surface-dwelling creatures as well as those of open water, the bottom, and the shore and tells how various animals and plants live together in a community.
Amphibians
A Frog in the Bog
by Karma Wilson
Grade K-3
There's a frog on the log in the middle of the bog... Beautiful watercolor illustrations.
Frogs, Toads & Turtles
by Diane Burns
Grade k-8
Filled with colorful illustrations and fascinating facts. Features easy to do activities.
From Tadpole to Frog
Grade k-2
How does a frog grow? Follow each step with this colorful book.
Bats
Discover Bats
By Merlin Tuttle
Grade 2-8
Twenty-one lessons with step by step teacher's guide and worksheets.
Batwings and the Curtain of Night
by Marguerite Davol
Grade k-3
After creating the world and its creatures and day and night, the Mother of All Things leaves it to the night animals to find a way to lessen the night's darkness.
Bears
Bears
Grade 2-5
Learn about black bears, brown bears, and polar bears. How do they live? What do they eat? Color photographs and illustrations. 23 pages
Bears
by Laura Bour
Grade k-1
Colorful drawings encourage young readers to turn a brightly colored transparent page to reveal a bear snoozing cozily in his den, in a sturdy board book.
Birds
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
Peterson First Guides Birds
by Roger Peterson
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Pocket Guide to Sagebrush Birds Pocket Guide to Prairie Birds Handy pocket guides with color photographs. We have multiple copies. |
Smithsonian Kids' Field Guides: Birds of North America West
Grade K-8
At last here are field guides to birds that combine the authority of the latest ornithological facts with a format developed especially for children aged 6 and up. Crystal-clear photos and illustrations with call outs, captions, and info boxes make it easy for kids to find the birds, learn about the birds, and identify the birds they are likely to see in their bird watching experiences.
Eagles
Grade 2-5
Eagles are awe-inspiring. Readers can learn how they fly, what they eat, and even about baby eagles.
Hawks from Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors In Flight
by Jerry Liguori
Identifying hawks in flight is a tricky business. Across North America, tens of thousands of people gather every spring and fall at more than one thousand known hawk migration sites--from New Jersey's Cape May to California's Golden Gate. Yet, as many discover, a standard field guide, with its emphasis on plumage, is often of little help in identifying those raptors soaring, gliding, or flapping far, far away.
by Jerry Liguori
Identifying hawks in flight is a tricky business. Across North America, tens of thousands of people gather every spring and fall at more than one thousand known hawk migration sites--from New Jersey's Cape May to California's Golden Gate. Yet, as many discover, a standard field guide, with its emphasis on plumage, is often of little help in identifying those raptors soaring, gliding, or flapping far, far away.
Other Wildlife
Into the Forest: Nature's Food Chain Game
Grade 2-6
Eat or be eaten as you learn about food chains and food relationships in the forest.
Rabbits, Squirrels and Chipmunks: Take-Along Guide
by Mel Boring
Grade K-8
Identify 29 different rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks while learning about what they eat and where you might see them while on a walk.
Seashells, Crabs and Sea Stars
by Christiane Tibbitts
Grade k-8
An introduction to the world of seashells, crabs, and sea stars including identification information, educational activities, and fun facts. Invites young naturalists to spot wildlife. Safety tips are provided and interesting activities are suggested
by Christiane Tibbitts
Grade k-8
An introduction to the world of seashells, crabs, and sea stars including identification information, educational activities, and fun facts. Invites young naturalists to spot wildlife. Safety tips are provided and interesting activities are suggested
Reptiles
Identification Guide to the Herptiles of Wyoming
by Josh Parker
Snakes, Salamanders & Lizards (Take Along Guides)
by Diane Burns
Grade K-8
Learn where to find these amazing creatures, what they eat, and interesting facts.
Skulls
Animal Skulls: A Guide to North American Species
By Mark Elbroch
This uniquely thorough reference and guidebook offers illustrations, descriptions, and measurements for the skulls of some 275 animal species found throughout North America.
The Skull Alphabet Book
By Jerry Pallotta
Grade 1-5
Readers must use clues to guess to which animal each skull belongs.
Key-Guide to Mammal Skulls and Lower Jaws
by Aryan Roest
A non-technical, illustrated key, intended to be used in the field. Written for the student, hiker, or naturalist who comes upon mammal remains and wishes to know what kind of a beast it was. Identifies the skulls and jaws to species. Covers the native and domesticated mammals of the US and southern Canada. Unusual in making possible identification from lower jaws alone.
Tracks & Scat
A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America
by James Halfpenny
James Halfpenny’s Field Guide will allow the nature lover to satisfy his or her curiosity by identifying the animal that left the prints. But identification is only the beginning of a fascinating activity: interpretation is the rewarding goal of this book. With it anyone can be a nature detective, able to reconstruct the behavior of mammals from mice to moose.
Animal & Bird Tracks Knowledge Cards
A picture of a bird's or animal's footprints appears on one side of each card; the other side names the creature and presents its taxonomic data, physical characteristics, footprint size, and diet, and notes on its natural history. 48 card deck
A picture of a bird's or animal's footprints appears on one side of each card; the other side names the creature and presents its taxonomic data, physical characteristics, footprint size, and diet, and notes on its natural history. 48 card deck
Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains
by James Halfpenny
Signs Along the River: Learning to Read the Natural Landscape
by Kayo Robertson
Grade k-3
A primer in ecology to help children enjoy and understand the sights, sounds, and goings on in the world around us.
Tracks, Scats and Signs
by Laslie Dendy
Grade 3-5
Become a nature detective with this illustrative, engaging and fun Take-Along-Guide. You may not know where to look, or what to look for, but animal signs are everywhere and this guide will help you learn how to read them.
by Laslie Dendy
Grade 3-5
Become a nature detective with this illustrative, engaging and fun Take-Along-Guide. You may not know where to look, or what to look for, but animal signs are everywhere and this guide will help you learn how to read them.
Rubber Animal Tracks
Bear
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Beaver
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Coyote
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Elk
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Frog
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Goose
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Jack Rabbit
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Mink
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Moose
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Porcupine
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Racoon
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Red Fox
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