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Kentucky's Animals

                                By: Luke

The Red- Tailed Hawk can live up to 10-15 years. It can weigh 1.5-3.3  pounds.                        

Barred Owls eat rodents, reptiles and fish. The barred owl’s common  name is the hoot owl.

The Cardinal is our state bird. It stays in Kentucky all year round.

The Kentucky Bass is a popular catch in   Kentucky. It is our state fish.        

The Copperhead, Timber Rattlesnake and the Cottonmouth  are the only venomous snakes in Kentucky. Their heads are the shape of a triangle.

Black Bears not only shed their fur, they also shed their paw pads. The Black Bear hibernates above and below ground.

Elk are members of the deer family. They have been over- hunted in Kentucky, but, luckily we have brought them back.

The Gray Squirrel is our state wild animal. They can swim up to 2 miles in calm water.

   The Peregrine Falcon can fly-when vertical- up to 200 mph! The female has a wingspan of 45 inches and weighs 2 pounds more than the male!

The Gray Bat is an endangered animal. It normally    lives 1 mile away from a river and has a wingspan of 11-12 inches.

ANCIENT ANIMALS

Mammoths came to Big Bone Lick for salt. Big Bone Lick is now one of our state parks.

Megatherium came to Kentucky in the Pleistocene Epoch. The dinosaur can grow up to 20 feet long.

  RESOURCES: --- KENTUCKY FISH AND WILDLIFE GAME FARM IN FRANKFORT, KY --- BOOK: JURASSIC ARK! BY CAROLE MARSH --- WEBSITE: WWW.PFMT.ORG/ --- WEBSITE: WWW.MBR-PWRC.USGS.GOV/  ---