Diet:
The American Robin eats earthworms, insects and berries.

Interesting fact:
American Robins are Neotropical migrants, although they are found year-round in mild climates.

American Robin Fact Sheet »

Diet:
The ensatina feeds primarily on insects.

Interesting fact:
During cold periods, this salamander may be found in burrows of meadow mice or gophers.

Ensatina Fact Sheet »

Diet:
It feeds on whatever it can find, mostly mammals and carrion, although it also eats birds, fruit, and insects.

Interesting fact:
Efforts to exterminate coyotes have taken place during the 20th century. Their numbers are still increasing.

Coyote Fact Sheet »

Diet:
It feeds on seeds, nuts, fruits, insects, and fungi.

Interesting fact:
The Eastern gray squirrel is responsible for causing extensive damage to certain species of trees by stripping off large sections of bark, chewing holes in bird nest boxes, and damaging flower beds.

Eastern Gray Squirrel Fact Sheet »

Diet:
Honey bees harvest nectar (carbohydrates) and pollen (protein) from flowering plants.

Interesting fact:
Worker bees do all the different tasks needed to operate and maintain the hive. They are all sterile females with a straight, barbed stinger.

Honey Bee Fact Sheet »

Diet:
It is an omnivore and it feeds largely upon seeds, although it eats other food including insects and their larvae.

Interesting fact:
The house sparrow is a cavity nester and will out-compete the native birds for nest boxes.

Diet:
It feeds on spiders, crickets, earthworms, snails, slugs, beetle larvae, and small invertebrates.

Interesting fact:
The long-toed salamander is found in habitats occurring from sea level to elevations of over 10,000 feet.

Diet:
It feeds on a variety of small insects.

Interesting fact:
The Pacific tree frog and the bullfrog are the only 2 frogs you can easily hear croaking in Washington State. The Pacific tree frog is smaller in size than a chicken egg and may be shades or green or brown.

Pacific Treefrog Fact Sheet »

Diet:
It feeds upon crayfish, insects, small birds, small rodents, insects, fruits, nuts, and garbage.

Interesting fact:
The raccoon is largely nocturnal in its habits and uses riparian (stream) corridors to travel. When it searches for food in water, it keeps its head up watching for predators and lets its hands find the food.

Raccoon Fact Sheet »

Diet:
It is an omnivore and feeds on seeds and a variety of insects, including caterpillars, grasshoppers, and beetles.

Interesting fact:
The red-winged blackbird always nests in swampy places, usually in reeds. The most dominant males set up their territory in the middle of the marsh, which is more protected from predators.

Red-winged Blackbird Fact Sheet »

Diet:
It is an omnivore, feeding upon seeds, nuts, fruits and a variety of insects, such as grasshoppers and beetles. During nesting time it may also eat the eggs of other birds, as well as small mammals.

Interesting fact:
Steller's jays cache (store) food in the ground and cover it with a leaf or plant material to mark the location. Two Steller's jays are able to cache 100,000 nuts in a period of three months.

Steller's Jay Fact Sheet »

Diet:
It feeds primarily on other birds such as quails, doves, woodpeckers, flickers, swifts, sparrows, warblers, threshers, wrens, bluebirds, and occasionally small rodents and insects as well.

Interesting fact:
The sharp-shinned hawk generally nests in tall conifers in the mountains and visits the lowlands during the winter. One common source of food are small birds at backyard feeders.

Diet:
It feeds upon insects, carrion, garbage, other small mammals, fruit, worms, etc.

Interesting fact:
They are the only marsupial in North America. Oposums have apposable first digits on the hind feet that assist with climbing trees. A female can carry fertilized eggs and have young in her pouch at the same time.