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Baltimore checkerspot butterfly

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Baltimore checkerspot

January 15, 2016, Page A5, B5

NATURE NOTES

By Annie Reid
Westborough Community Land Trust

Name the wildlife – Nature Notes quiz

Winter finally arrived after a surprisingly warm December, but the days are already getting longer – a reminder that we can look forward to spring. Get ready to enjoy nature in 2016 by taking the Nature Notes quiz from the 2015 columns and refreshing your knowledge of local wild plants, animals, and more.

QUIZ:
NAME THE WILDLIFE!

eastern wood-peewee

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Eastern wood-peewee

scarlet tanager

PHOTO COURTESY OF GARRY KESSLER

Scarlet tanager

Take the quiz by looking at the short descriptions below of wild plants, animals, and more featured in Nature Notes in 2015. Then match the descriptions with the names in the alphabetical list that follows.

Choose your answers from the drop down lists. Check your answers by clicking the "Show Answers" button. The answer page will contain links to the relevant 2015 “Nature Notes” columns in case you’d like to read any of last year’s columns, or any others among more than 220 past columns.

NAME THE WILDLIFE!