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The Nearctic (North American) Ecozone
The Nearctic. Home to Groundhogs, Ground Squirrels and ground beef. Where the scenery is larger than life and so are the meals.
The Nearctic (North American) Ecozone covers all of Canada and the USA (I include southern Florida here though it technically belongs in the Neotropical Zone), the highlands of Mexico and Greenland.
Information – sometimes detailed, sometimes less so – on mammal watching in many areas is included on this site. Country (or State and Territory) pages include lists of resources specific to them. Some more general resources are listed below.
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Texas
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Resources – Books
North America
Burt, W. and Grossenheider, R. 1976. Mammals. Peterson Field Guides, Houghton Mifflin. Not a bad book, nice illustrations of many species.
Hartson, Tamara. 1999. Squirrels of the West. Lone Pine Publishing. A useful guide to a sometimes tricky family of animals to identify (includes all ground and tree squirrels, chipmunks and marmots).
Kays, R. and Wilson, D. 2002. Mammals of North America. Princeton University Press. This is my favourite of my three North American field guides. Brief notes, and nice illustrations for every species.
National Audubon Society. 1996. Field Guide to North American Mammals. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. Not the easiest field guide to use, because the photos of each species are separated from the notes, but a handy size for the field and with a good deal of useful information.
Reid, Fiona A. 2006. Mammals of North America. Peterson Field Guides.Houghton Mifflin. A completely revised version of the Burt & Grossenheider book mentioned above. Photos, illustrations, pictures of skulls etc. The best field guide I’ve seen.
Wilson, D. and Ruff, S. (eds). 1999. The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals. Smithsonian Institution Press. At 450 pages its a bit big for the field but its a fabulous book and the best I have seen for the region.
Canada
Banfield, A. 1974. The Mammals of Canada. University of Toronto Press. More of an encyclopedia than a field guide, but, so far as I know, the most comprehsive source of information on Canada’s mammals.
USA
A nice series of books “<STATE NAME> Wildlife Viewing” published by Falcon are a good source of ideas on where to go and what you might see.
Resources – Websites
You can join the North American Mammal Watching Group on Facebook that covers Canada, the USA and Mexico.
I’ve emailed national park staff in both the USA and Canada from time to time and they have invariably been extremely helpful in offering advice or helping me confirm certain sightings and so on. Emails to the general inquiry line will often be passed on to Rangers in the right park.
USA
The American Mammal Society has lists of the mammals in many US states
The Smithsonian’s North American Mammals site is a searchable database of all living mammals in North America. It has a really cool “build your own field guide” feature, whereby you creat a PDF field guide featuring the species you want.
