Beartracker Nature Films brings you films all about nature and the outdoors, with a special focus on wildlife tracking skills. Animal tracks can be tough to identify and these videos will help you learn how to identify them with ease. Created by a professionally certified tracker in the CyberTracker Conservation system, these videos will help you learn the skill if animal tracking. Also included are videos showing the animals in their natural habitat, going about their lives and exhibiting interesting behaviors, such as scent marking. Many animal behaviors show up in their tracks and signs and these videos will help you visualize how the signs or tracks were made.
This lovely moment is currently taking place on my balcony. I am new to bird-watching. Can someone please tell me if the larger bird is the parent, or the baby? I assumed that the smaller birds were the babies, but (like in the video) they are putting seeds into the larger one's mouth. If anyone can clarify which generation is which, I'd be grateful!
I ❤'d your video! I don't know very much about bears except that I ❤❤❤ their cute cubs! Mind you, I ❤all babies! 🍃Thanks for sharing your knowledge about bears.🍃 🌺 I especially liked where you mentioned how at one exit in particular they would be alerted of predators because the branches and etc. would cause a sound.🌺 🍀They developed an excellent Security system for themselves.🍀👣 👌 Thanks very much for sharing your video with everyone! 🌝
I ❤❤❤ this cute little buck! He seemed like he was on high alert because his little ❤was racing... And when he lifted either back leg and kept it in the air for a bit was cute because he was listening all around for danger... 🦋 Thanks for sharing your video with everyone! 🦋 🌝
Gotta love seeing the babies. We have 2 does frequenting our property in south central Washington - each with two fawns. Fingers crossed for a long life for all. Thanks so much for sharing. 💖
so cute :)! question: is the best way to tell the difference between wolf and cougar scat is that the cougar scat has a mucus lining (i watched one of your videos from many years ago)? i found quite a large very dark black scat yesterday on the property i live on. it doesn't have 'blunt' ends and is filled with deer hair and tiny bone pieces. definitely not a grizzly scat as it's too small and looks very similar to dog. we do have sea wolves as i've heard them numerous times this spring, but i just want to be sure it's not a cougar :).
Sometimes, the firmness will help tell them apart. Feline scats have a tendency to be more firm and harder to break apart. Unless they are eating organ meats, in which case the scats are soft. They can take on a ball-and-socket appearance too. That's when they show clear segmentation.
that is very interesting, and impressive! is that normal behavior for a mole to travel above ground like that? what is the difference between a mole and a vole and is it true that if a dog eats one it can kill it? another words are they poisonous/toxic?
Moles will travel aboveground during the mating season. When seeking a mate, they come out on the surface and try to locate the tunnel of another mole, in search of a mate. Voles are small rodents, who also make tunnels. Theirs are in grasses normally. They are not toxic as far as I know. I've been told by several biologists that they apparently taste bad, which is why some predators will discard them after killing them.
@@beartracker777 thanks for getting back to my comment/qauestion! I was gonna try to be a comedian, and say that is some hella tracking skills! I was a bird dog myself,... , i could track a bumbble bee through a blizzard!! haha. im not going to quit my day job!! thanks a million!!
About 14 years ago I found a pile of unusual looking scat on the side of a trail in a large local park. It was in the winter and there was a couple inches of snow covering the ground. There was a set of large prints along with the scat. The scat didn't look like dog scat. I assumed it was though and thought the prints were from a New Foundland or a Saint Bernard. I was puzzled by the scat. Sometime later I saw a picture online that looked exactly like the scat I found. It was a pic of scat from a captive mountain lion that was fed a lot of road kill dear. I did not take a pic of the scat and prints I saw. After this I learned what mountain line scat and prints look like. I did not remember the details of the large prints but judging by the size they may have been mountain lion. This happened in northeast Ohio. There isn't supposed to be mountain lions here. I keep looking for prints and scat. Over the years there have been reports of them being seen but never proven. The best report was a picture of a mountain lion taken by an off duty park ranger in Ohio close to the PA border. That was about 70 miles east of my location.
That really was a risky trip for the mole, but that spring mating drive must be strong! I have found a shrew in the stomach of a trout, and that mole could have ended up the same way. That was cool to see that mole dig into the soil at the end. Good luck to all the moles!
Just saw a lot of scat along a trail yesterday, it was pretty big, and dark in color. I know for a fact this was not coyote, and by the size of it, I doubt it was a bobcat, but I can't know 100% for sure this was a puma.
A pace is a gait in which the front and hind feet on the same side of the body move at the same time. Camels use the pace. Raccoons use an extreme overstep walk. The hind foot oversteps the front foot, which makes the front right land next to the hind left, and so on .
@@beartracker777Thanks. I have read in Mammal Tracks and Sign 2nd edition that they are considered the same thing.. "Raccoons and 2x2 walks: Raccoons walk in a distinctive fashion. The front and hind legs on each side of the body move nearly simultaneously (called a pace), and they really stretch forward with their front limbs. The resulting track pattern is one where tracks are paired, and where each pair consists of a front track from one side of the body and a hind track made by the other side of the body. This means that if in one pair you see a left front track and a right hind, then in the very next pair you will see the right front track and the left hind. This variation of the walk can also be altered by adding or subtracting speed. Look to each pair of tracks and note where in relation to the front track the hind track registers. When raccoons walk slowly, the hind track in each pair falls behind the front track, and when they walk quickly, the hind track falls beyond the front track in each pair. The distinctive fast walk of the raccoon is trot-like in speed and unique to this species."
Good job. The only thing that I would add is that the resin ducts are primarily for chemical defense, not energy transport. The redwood needles are so toxic that the voles rarely if ever eat them.
Redwood needles aren't eaten by many creatures, are they? They have so many tannins in them that they'd likely taste awful too, which is another good way to repel things that want to eat the tree. Thanks!
@ericforsman7787 Wow, I just found an entire page of links to articles about tree voles! I have a lot of reading to do now. Thanks for writing all these! www.fs.usda.gov/research/about/people/eforsman
Good summary, but there are a few things that need comment. First, the primary function of resin ducts is chemical defense against browsers, not energy transport within the needle. Second, tree voles do occasionally come to the ground, especially males when they are in search of females. If they can't travel from tree-to-tree via interconnected limbs they will run down to the ground and travel overland to the next tree. And third, tree voles often remove the bark and eat the cambium from the twigs after they eat the needles. Those little debarked twigs are another good sign to look for. They look like little toothpicks and are often mixed with the resin ducts. The debarked twigs have an angled chisel cut at the ends where the vole uses its teeth to snip them off. And although tree voles do occur in the redwood forests along the coast, they do not eat redwood foliage. Their diet is primarily Douglas-fir in most areas, but they will also eat white fir, grand fir, western hemlock, and knobcone pine. They are absent from pure stands of redwoods.
Excellent. So, the resin only functions as a chemical defense? I hadn't thought of that. I've always thought they were for transporting water and nutrients. Thanks! The debarked twigs are another good sign to look for. I didn't find them with this particular piece of nest remains, but I've seen them in other fallen nest materials.
Based on numbers of prey in the diet it varied from 0% in regions where tree voles were rare or absent to as high as 40% in areas where tree voles were common. In our radiotelemtery studies of tree voles the most common predators were weasels. But just about everything eats them, including barred owls, red-tailed hawks, jays, gopher snakes, ringtails, pygmy owls, and saw-whet owls. It is a rare tree vole that lives more than a couple of years.
@@ericforsman7787 Wow. Do weasels catch them in trees or when they come to the ground? I have to download and read that study now. Sounds interesting. I am fascinated by them and so glad they are in the woods here.
Is this a good place to fish? I am going to visit the redwoods with my family (coming from oregon) and was wondering if the fishing in the south fork is good, our house we rented is right next to it.
It depends on the time of year. The river is subject to closures due to low flows most of the year. Other times, it is flowing too much and not safe. It's best to check with one of the local fishing sites in advance, for conditions. Or check with the sporting goods store in Garberville. They usually know.
That's out of range for mountain lions. It would be extremely unusual for one to be in that region, although they have dispersed through the east in the past. Generally, their prey is around the size of deer, which is their preferred prey.
Scat on scat happens all the time. Bobcats, coyotes, foxes, all are known to create latrines, with multiple scats deposits on multiple visits. Foxes and coyotes also over-mark, by depositing their scats on top of those of other predators.
Scat on scat happens all the time. Bobcats, coyotes, foxes, all are known to create latrines, with multiple scats deposits on multiple visits. Foxes and coyotes also over-mark, by depositing their scats on top of those of other predators.
Thank you! This was quite helpful in figuring we have a bobcat near the thicket in our back pasture. The pony is terrified, poor thing. A neighbor confirmed it with an outdoor camera.
Ponies can be skittish. Bobcats can take prey up to the size of a deer, but that is a difficult prey item for bobcats. They have to fight to take something that large.
Mt. lion scat can be soft. It depends on the contents and the diet. When feeding on organ meat, their scats can be soft and runny. When they ingest some fur, it can pack densely like this. The ones that last longest on the landscape are the more dense ones. So, that's the majority if what we find.
So is-this a "bear bed" as per your last comment in response to @yeshikajimo1448 in this comment section, or a "bear den" as per your title and description left unedited?
Bears "den" or bed down above ground, or in various cavities. It's a bear's resting place, to be more accurate. I think sometimes we picture bears denning in caves like in cartoons, but they will choose much more exposed sites too. In snow country, they will even let snow accumulate on their backs while they sleep. I think the terms are interchangeable in that way. It's a place where a bear rested repeatedly. It was close to the current feeding area that was active at the time. They don't always re-use these sites, but sometimes they do.
@@beartracker777 Ok, I see, thanks for explaining. You have seen a lot more of those than I have. I was closely associating the term "den" with the place a bear would use to spend the winter in, and thought "bed" meant an occasional resting place only used during the active season. I guess in Coastal British Columbia where I live, winter precipitation (mostly as rain within the first 1000 m ASL) is so high that most bears favour a good roof for their winter retreat. We find bear dens in hollowed red cedar trees and Sitka spruce around here. But, yes, I have also heard of bears spending the whole winter exposed to the elements. I have only found 2 dens (in hollow trees) so far, and I think one heavily used bed (lots of scat around!). This winter, those 2 dens are not occupied.
Thank you for sharing this, very informative and in depth. Just found what I thought to be bobcat scat and definitely identical to what's in the video here, thanks!
@@beartracker777 Yeah, me too. Such a sweet thing to observe. I have a herd of five that I have been hanging out with. They come through my property almost everyday. Very interesting and beautiful animals!
I found a puzzling buck rub and after watching this film, I was able to go back out and document that's what it was based on the gouge marks, up and down rubbing, debris at the bottom, and lack of teeth marks (there were a couple of porcupines in the area). The puzzling part was the dug up soil and duff leading out about 2' from the tree. I think the deer stirred that up as it was pushing against the tree. I found one indentation that could be from a toe but nothing showing the other toe. There are also dogs here so this could be a separate sign, but it didn't have the characteristic pattern that dogs do when they scrape after defecating or peeing. Ponderosa pine and cottonwood river bottom, Montana. Thanks for putting these videos together. They help a lot.
I just discovered 3 old potatoes and one fir cone in my platform bird feeder!!! The only explanation is a squirrel cache. We have an aggressive local squirrel who is actively using the feeder and often chases the Chickadees and Nuthatches into the trees. I've set up a second feeder and veryone seems to get along now.
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