Historically, badger furs were used by Native Americans and later for shaving brushes. Education Menu Expand Angler Education. Becoming an Outdoors-Woman. Boater Education.
Educational Resources. Be Nature-Safe. Texas Natural Regions. It has small ears on the side of its head and long, sharp front claws Range In the United States, the American badger can be found from the west coast to Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.
Habitat The American Badger lives in open areas like plains and prairies, farmland, and the edges of woods. Diet Small burrowing mammals like ground squirrel, rats, gophers and mice make up most of the badger's diet. It digs its prey out of the ground with its strong, sharp claws. The badger will sometimes dig into the burrow of an animal and wait for it to return. Coyotes often will stand by while a badger is burrowing and catch animals that come out of a tunnel trying to escape the badger.
The badger also eats snakes, birds and reptiles. It will sometimes bury extra food to eat later. Life Cycle The American badger is solitary, except during the breeding season. Watch the video. Since, USGS researchers have continued looking for badgers using canine scent detection, burrow surveys, remote infrared cameras, and citizen sightings. Their objectives are to further identify and map areas within the county that are used by badgers and to learn more about seasonal patterns, core-use areas, relationships to prey densities, and potential movement corridors among conserved and non-conserved landscapes.
Read the data summaries for the effort. Possibilities for future badger monitoring and research in San Diego County are currently being assessed. This includes evaluating the costs and benefits of active monitoring by radiotelemetry and passive monitoring using burrow surveys, canine scent surveys, and camera traps.
USGS researchers are also exploring methods such as facial recognition and further development of genetic tools to identify and count individuals. The outreach poster and badger hotline has resulted in over 50 verified badger locations in the past 5 years highlighting the continued role of the public in this ongoing effort.
Use of dogs to locate wildlife scat over large areas was pioneered in by Samuel Wasser of the University of Washington's Conservation Canines program. Wasser collaborated with Sgt. Barbara Davenport, Master Canine Trainer with the Washington State Department of Corrections, to modify narcotics detection dog methods to train dogs to locate scat from threatened and endangered species.
Badgers weigh between 9 and 39 pounds 4 to 18 kilograms. Badgers prefer dry, open grasslands, though they are very adaptable. Some also live in woods, quarries, hedgerows, sea cliffs and moorland. American badgers are typically found in the Great Plains region of North America. Honey badgers are found in southern Africa; hog badgers live primarily in Southeast Asia, India and Sumatra. Badgers are also found in large numbers in the United Kingdom.
Badgers have strong limbs and sharp claws that help them dig burrows and find food underground. They make their homes by digging tunnels and caves and use grass and leaves for bedding. Setts have a special chamber reserved as the bathroom because badgers are clean creatures, according to the Somerset Wildlife Trust. Many badger species are very social creatures and live in groups called a cete or clan.
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