Field Guide to Illinois Mammals - Paperback

by Joyce E. Hofmann (Author), Illinois Natural History Survey (Author)

The new edition of the Field Guide to Illinois Mammals is a pocket-sized handbook on the state's sixty-one species. Joyce Hofmann provides entries with extensive physical descriptions, and information on lookalike species, behaviors, habitats, tracks and scat, and population status, and range. More than 200 color photos, drawings, and illustrations aid at-a-glance identification while distribution maps show where each species is known to occur in the state.

Designed to use in the field or the backyard, Field Guide to Illinois Mammals updates a singular reference for wildlife biologists, ecologists, hikers, armchair adventurers, and anyone else fascinated by the state's wildlife.

Author Biography

Joyce E. Hofmann is a research affiliate at the Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.