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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
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Mammals (Class Mammalia)Observer
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Due to the smell I think it was a skunk
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American Robin (Turdus migratorius)Observer
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Robin about the size of a fist red belly black back
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Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)Observer
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Black bird the size of a fist with blue head and yellow eyes
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Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)Observer
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Canadian goose
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Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)Observer
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Red winged black bird - male
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Red Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea)Observer
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About 4 feet in hight in a wooded area near a stream.
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Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)Observer
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About the size of two fists, in a park in central Toronto.
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Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)Observer
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About 10 Ft tall near the edge of a walk way in a park in Greater Toronto Area.
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Red Pine (Pinus resinosa)Observer
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Tree about 20ft tall in a wooded area near water in greater Toronto area.
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Wild Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)Observer
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about 3 1/2 feet tall in a wooded area near water, looked like grassy field.
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House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)Observer
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Small bird about five cm long in a yew bush in a very urban area.
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Southeast Asian Freshwater Crabs (Family Gecarcinucidae)Observer
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about the size of a fist with two inch claws, seen in a vegetation filled small town surrounded by rivers.
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Balkan Ground Mantis (Rivetina balcanica)Observer
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About two inches long a brown praying mantis in a dry rocky terrain with small sage bushes and desert flowers.
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European Mantis (Mantis religiosa)Observer
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Large praying mantis about two inches long on the back porch in a dry rocky habitat with near by hills covered in sage scrub bushes.
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Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)Observer
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About the size of two fists, high in the trees in a patch of trees in a very urban area. Surrounded by apartment buildings in downtown Toronto.
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Wild Carrot (Daucus carota)Observer
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About four feet tall at the side of the highway through down town Toronto Ontario. Partially cultivated land, but many wild flowers appear to grow here interspersed with planted trees.
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Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare)Observer
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About 15 cm tall near the edge of parkland, and along the water in central Toronto Ontario Canada. In an uncultivated area next to the park. Because it is a perennial I believe we will see it here again come spring.
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Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)Observer
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About 10cm tall near the edge of the water in a park near central Toronto. It is winter and the milkweed is hibernating, but because it is a perennial I believe it will bloom again come spring. It was along the edge of a cultivated garden but in an uncultivated area where wild plants were growing.
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Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)Observer
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About the size of four fists. Seen in shallow vegitation filled water along side a park near down town Toronto.
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Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)Observer
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About the size of four fists. Brown plumage and a white belly with blue feet and beak swimming in shallow water weed filled water along the edge of a park.
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Feral Pigeon (Columba livia var. domestica)Observer
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about the size of two fists put together (with feathers) Found under a tree in Trinity Bellwoods Park near the edge of the park.
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Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)Observer
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About the size of two fists placed next to each other. Seen in Trinitiy Bellwoods Park, adjacent to a back alley.