Field guide
Plants, fungi, and wildlife
Dillsboro and the Laughery Creek hills. Bundled on the device — works with no signal.
AllTree or woody shrubFlower, weed, or herbVineMushroomMammalBirdSnake, turtle, or frogTick, spider, or insectFish
4 plates
Northern cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis
Year-round red bird of fencerows. Indiana’s state bird. Not a food species people bother with.
Low riskNot food
Wild turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
Big woodland fowl. A real emergency meat if you can hunt or trap legally — or must.
Low riskEdible
Canada goose
Branta canadensis
Black stocking head, white chinstrap. River and pond meat, greasy and dark.
Low riskEdible
Great blue heron
Ardea herodias
Creek sentinel. Leave it — a poor meal and a working fisher you want around.
CautionNot food
Categories: Trees · Shrubs · Wildflowers · Vines · Ferns · Mushrooms · Mammals · Birds · Reptiles · Amphibians · Ticks & spiders · Insects · Fish