NM State Symbols
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Symbols for New Mexico: Living Symbols (Animals and Fauna)
By Nora Kirkeby
Aug 22, 2006, 23:46 PST
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| Photo by Dr. William Weber of the United States Department of Transportation |
New Mexico State Amphibian
The spadefoot toad is New Mexico's state animal, and you can learn how to recognize it, and what it eats here.
Source: Natural Diversity Information Source - Colorado Division of Wildlife
Arkansas State Animal - (Adobe Acrobat Required)
This beautiful guide has literally everything you could need to know about the black bears in New Mexico. With everything from the black bear's history, to hibernation, and ways to deal with bears if you see one. This guide is packed with useful facts.
Source: New Mexico Game & Fish
New Mexico State Animal (Conservation)
This page has all sorts of information on the black bear, how people are threatening it, and where it lives.
Source: Wildlife Conservation Society
New Mexico State Animal (Conservation)
This page has all sorts of information on the black bear, how people are threatening it, and where it lives.
Source: Wildlife Conservation Society
New Mexico State Bird
This beautiful full-color nature guide has information on the roadrunner's life cycle, habitat, diet, and more. It also has great large photos (simply click to enlarge).
Source: New Hampshire Public Television
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Photo by Gary Kramer
From the Washington DC Library
Courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library System |
New Mexico State Bird (Coloring Page)
This beautifully detailed coloring page shows the state bird, running among yucca plants, which are the state flower Color it in for a wonderful addition to any state report.
Source: Friends Across America
New Mexico State Butterfly
This page has all the base information you need on the New Mexico state butterfly, including a map of its distribution in the U.S.
Source: National Biological Information Infrastructure and the Montana State University
New Mexico State Butterfly (Photos)
Check out these beautiful large photos of the sandia hairstreak. Use them for artistic reference when you're drawing the butterfly.
Source: University of Georgia - Missouri Botanical Garden
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Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout by Lloyde Hazzard
From the Alaska Image Library
Courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library System |
New Mexico State Fish
All the information you need on your state fish, the cutthroat trout, can be found here. You can even see the record for the largest cutthroat trout ever caught in New Mexico.
Source: Wildlife Forver: National Fish Art
New Mexico State Insect
This page has everything from biological information, to its adoption as the New Mexico state symbol. Click on the main photo to make it bigger for your report.
Source: Wikipedia
New Mexico State Reptile
Learn a little bit about the whiptail lizard, New Mexico's state animal, and find out how this species manages to be unisexual. That's right, that means there is only one gender in the species. All whiptail lizards are female. Find out how here.
Source: SouthernNewMexico.com
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