DIY Cards
Black-Capped Chickadee
Poecile atricapillus4 POINTS
• The oldest wild Chickadee lived to be twelve and a half years old! • The “chicka-dee-dee” is one of the most complex vocalizations in all of the animal kingdom.
Northern Flicker
Colaptes auratusRICHMOND DYKE DECK | 4 POINTS
• Norther Flickers use a drumming technique to attract their mates. • A group of Flickers is called a “guttering,” a “Peterson,” or a “menorah.”
Grey Wolf
Canis lupusRICHMOND DYKE DECK | 6 POINTS
• Wolves feed on medium to large sized ungulates, marmots, hares, badgers, foxes, polecats, ground squirrels, mice, hamsters, voles, and other rodents. Sometimes they will even eat lizards and toads.
Buttercup
RanunculaceaeRICHMOND DYKE DECK | 2 POINTS
• Buttercups are native to the Northern Hemisphere.
Wilson’s Warbler
Wilsonia pusillaRICHMOND DYKE DECK | 3 POINTS
• The Wilson’s Warbler was named after the American ornithologist Alexander Wilson. Ornithologists study birds.
European Starling
Sturnus vulgarisRICHMOND DYKE DECK | 3 POINTS
• All the European Starlings in North America are descendants of 100 birds set loose in New York’s Central Park in the early 1890s.