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Reader's Digest North American wildlife / [editor, Susan J. Wernert].

Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, ©1982.

559 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

This volume is an illustrated guide to 2,000 plants and animals. Every species is presented in full color; this reference contains thousands of identification capsules, range maps, and habitat symbols and a special 32 page guide to wildlife communities. Spanning the land from Florida to Alaska, it embraces field, forest, pond, prairie -- all the natural communities that make our North American flora and fauna so splendidly diverse. This book is really two in one -- both a valuable at-home reference and an extraordinary usable guide to the most common and conspicuous wild plants and animals of our continent. It is specially planned for quick and easy identification.

Animals -- North America -- Identification.

Plants -- North America -- Identification.

Botany -- North America.

Zoology -- North America.

Animals -- North America -- Identification.

North America.

Wernert, Susan J.

Reader's Digest Association.

North American wildlife

Includes index.

1. Wildlife Communities -- 2. Mammals. Introduction -- Land and freshwater mammals -- Marine mammals -- 3. Birds. Introduction -- Birds with distinctive traits -- Aquatic birds -- Land birds -- 4. Reptiles and amphibians. Reptile introduction -- Alligators -- Turtles -- Lizards -- Snakes -- Amphibian introduction -- Salamanders -- Toads -- Frogs -- 5. Fish. Introduction -- Fish -- 6. Invertebrates. Mollusk introduction -- Seashells and other mollusks -- Insect introduction -- Insects and relatives -- Aquatic invertebrates -- 7. Trees and shrubs. Introduction -- Conifers -- Broad-leaved trees -- Broad-leaved shrubs -- 8. Wildflowers. Introduction -- Identification chart -- Wildflowers -- 9. Nonflowering Plants. Introduction -- Ferns and relatives -- Mosses and liverworts -- Seaweeds -- Lichens -- 10. Mushrooms. Introduction -- Gilled mushrooms -- Other fungi.

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