Wildlife Judging General Questions

What makes up an American woodcock's diet?

• Invertebrates
• Seeds or grains
• Flower nectar
• Snakes

Earthworms represent 60% of an American woodcock's diet.

• True
• False

What is a high-quality woodcock habitat?

• dense, young forest and some moist sites
• mature forests with an abundance of large trees
• tree-lined bodies of water
• cavities of dead or hollow trees

Timber rattlesnakes are capable of reaching 25 years of age or older.

• True
• False

What is a timer rattlesnake's cover?

• upland forests with deep leaf litter and large amounts of downed woody debris
• areas with grass, forbs, cactus, or scattered shrubs
• dense, emergent aquatic and upland herbaceous vegetation
• low, wet areas, including moist meadows, prairies, woodlands, and brushy fields

A timber rattlesnake be aged by counting the rattle segments?

• True
• False

Timer rattlesnakes spend approximately six months of the year hibernating underground and will re-use a den for many years.

• True
• False

Where are brown thrashers found?

• sagebrush, and oak savannas and woodlands
• shrubby chaparral in the Mediterranean ecoregion
• shrub and bramble thickets, hedgerows, shelterbelts, young forests, forest edges, and brushy riparian areas
• young wetlands with relatively sparse to dense emergent aquatic vegetation

What makes up a brown thrasher's diet? (Select 2)

• Invertebrates
• Seeds or grains
• Flower nectar
• Snakes

Nests are usually found in bushes or small trees 1 to 10 feet aboveground.

• True
• False