Creature Features! & Wildlife Fact Sheets

Plants
Hawaii's Mauna Kea Silversword, with a special "Family Album"!
Mammals
Manatee Creature Feature
Black Rhinoceros (illustration)
Tiger (illustration)
Gray wolf (illustration)
Birds
Parakeet, Golden (Conure) (illustration)
Reptiles
Desert tortoise (illustration)
Amphibians
Frog, goliath (illustration)
Arachnids (spiders)
Tooth Cave spider (illustration)

For more species descriptions see our Species in the Spotlight and Creature Feature page.

Wildlife Fact Sheets

The Conservation Library identifies the various publications available from the Fish and Wildlife Service. These Wildlife Fact Sheets (or "biologues") provide basic information about species of regular public interest, and are updated intermittently. Some of the species are threatened or endangered, but others are common fish, plants, or animals of interest to the general public. [NOTE: Some fact sheets are available in HTML or PDF format. The PDF versions retain the layout of the printed versions, but may require you to install Adobe Acrobat Reader.] To see or download these publications, please go to species.fws.gov.

Mammals
Bear, American Black (Ursus americanus)
Bear, Grizzly (Ursus arctos horribilis)
Bear, Polar (Ursus maritimus)
Buffalo, American (Bison bison)
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)
Elephant
Ferret, Black-footed (Mustela nigripes)
Manatee, West Indian (Trichechus manatus)
Ox, Musk (Ovibos moschaturs)
Panda, Giant (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
Panther, Florida (Puma[(Feli]) Concolor Coryi)
Rhinoceros
Squirrel, Delmarva Peninsula Fox
Tiger (Panthera tigris)
Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)
Wolf, Gray (Canis lupus)
Wolf, Red (Canis rufus)
Birds
Condor, California (Gymnogyps californianus)
Crane, Whooping (Grus americana)
Eagle, Bald (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Falcon, Peregrine (Falco peregrinus)
Pelican, Brown (Pelecanus occidentalis)
Songbirds, Familiar Migratory
Swan, Trumpeter (Olor buccinator)
Warbler, Kirtland's (Dendroica kirtlandii)
Woodpecker, Red-cockaded (Picoides borealis)
Fish
Salmon, Pacific (Oncorhynchus spp.)
Trout, Bull (Salvelinus confluentus)
Reptiles
Alligator, American (Alligator mississippiensis)
Tortoise, Desert

Questions? For more information on other species, check out species information page at "species.fws.gov". We are posting information on the Web as fast as we can, but we're not set up to provide individual responses to "tell me everything you know about bears" or other such queries. Please check out the Questions page before you contact us.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Updated June 12, 2002