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)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.