Plants and Animals

The A.T. Seasons program is focused on monitoring plants and animals that have large geographic ranges and are relatively common along the Trail. Our Primary species are those which we will compare trail-wide, while our Secondary species will only be used for local projects. Click on the links below to learn more about each of these species in Nature's Notebook.

Primary	Secondary
(for trail-wide comparisons)	(for local comparisons)

Trees

Red Maple, Acer rubrum	Pin Cherry, Prunus pensylvanica
Sugar Maple, Acer saccherum	Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida
White Oak, Quercus alba	Yellow Birch, Betula alleghaniensis
Northern Red Oak, Quercus rubra	American Beech, Fagus grandifolia

Shrubs and Herbs

Spring Beauty, Claytonia virginica	Trout Lily, Erythronium americanum
Canada Mayflower, Maianthemum canadense	Blue-bead Lily, Clintonia borealis
May-Apple, Podophyllum peltatusm	Bunchberry, Cornus canadensis
Erect Trillium, Trillium erectum
Painted Trillium, Trillium undulatum
Hobblebush, Viburnum alnifolium (lantanoides)

Animals

Black-Throated Blue Warbler, Dendroica caerulescens	Listen here
Black-Throated Green Warbler, Dendroica virens	Listen here
Winter Wren, Troglodytes hiemalis	Listen here
Black-Capped Chickadee, Poecile atricapillua	Listen here
Eastern Tent Caterpillar, Malacosoma americanum (tents)
Spring Peeper, Pseudacris crucifer (chorus)	Listen here
Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica (chorus)	Listen here

To view credit information, please see our Acknowledgements page.

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