Contains natural history narratives for more than 300 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians found in Pennsylvania and throughout the northeastern United States.
`Chuck Fergus has managed an impressive feat - to deftly mix solid, scientific information on the Northeast's diverse animal life, from bears to bullfrogs, with his own observations and anecdotes to create that rarest of works, a reference book that is a delight to read.' Scott Weidensaul, Author of `Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds'