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Can you identify our mystery photo?

  • Location: central New Hampshire
  • Habitat: moist woodland
  • Size: about 60 cm (24") tall
  • Behavior: spring flowering
  • Unusual Feature: striped green and purple flower
Photo credit: R. Peterson drawing

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Snake Holes?!

Snake Holes?!

May 12, 2008

Those holes in the ground aren’t made by snakes

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Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)

  • Location: northern Maine
  • Habitat: backyard area of mixed trees
  • Size: 14cm(5 1/2")
  • Behavior: feeding at bird feeding station
  • Unusual Feature: rusty cap, dark bill , plain gray breast
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The Roger Tory Peterson Institute

The mission of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History is to continue the legacy of Roger Tory Peterson by promoting the teaching and study of nature, and thereby to create knowledge of and appreciation and responsibility for the natural world.

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