The Widow Skimmer is a dragonfly commonly found perched on vegetation or patrolling in flight over the waters of wetlands and lake edges, or even slow moving streams.

The Widow Skimmer is a dragonfly commonly found perched on vegetation or patrolling in flight over the waters of wetlands and lake edges, or even slow moving streams.

The common loon is perhaps best known for its distinctive calls, which scientists have classified into 4 types – yodels, hoots, tremolos and wails – each with different purposes.

Eastern newts are native to the U.S. The bright orange salamanders you see sneaking under leaves are in their second stage of life called eft. They start out emerging from eggs attached to water plants in ponds and bogs. In this first stage of life, called aquatic larvae, they have gills.

The Northern Short-Tailed Shrew ranges from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, spending a short, frenetic life underground or in leaf litter, foraging for food in frantic bursts, then sleeping much of the day, though not hibernating.

Serviceberry, Amelanchier Arborea, is also known as Juneberry, Shadbush among many other names. This is a small North American native tree that grows between 20 and 25 feet tall and 6 feet wide.

Joe-pye weed is a tall, late-blooming annual in the composite (Asteraceae) family. It thrives in moist, sunny, open areas—especially fens, meadows, marshes, wet fields, and drainages—where it towers over most other annuals, reaching heights of up to 7 feet.

The Minke, a small Baleen whale, is an apex predator who plays a critical role in marine ecosystems. The scientific name signifies “Winged whale with a sharp snout.”

Mud dauber wasps are a set of wasp species from several families that share similar body shape, nest shape, and behavior.

An adorable and fluff-breasted small songbird with a distinctive black mask and a call that features both a short kind whistle and a rattle, like the roll of the dice, the northern shrike is breeds in the tundra of North America and Siberia.

Gray treefrogs are actually often a combination of gray, brown, and green, which helps them blend in where they live in trees or shrubs or fallen logs near water.

Snowshoe hares live in the coniferous and boreal forests of the Rocky Mountains, the Appalachian Mountains, the Pacific Northwest, New England, Alaska, Minnesota, Michigan, and Montana.

The storied white oak grows primarily in the eastern United States and into Canada. The name derives from the light-colored bark and the underside of the leaves.

Fairy-slipper is a rare orchid in New England, being found only in northern white-cedar-dominated swamps in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Shortnose Sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum), one of the smallest sturgeons at 4 feet long, is found in saltwater estuaries and freshwater rivers from Canada to Florida.

The Merlin is a small, powerful falcon, with long pointed wings, who is also a recycler: Merlins do not build their own nests, but instead repurpose the abandoned stick nests of crows and hawks.

The Northern Ringnecked snake is a small, dark blue-black that is sometimes opalescent.

The black bear is the second largest wild animal in New England. At full size, it weighs hundreds of pounds but can move fast.

Cinnamon ferns are a commonly found fern growing across New England along streambanks and in wetlands and can be found in the fossil records dating to the Late Cretaceous (73 million years ago)