He raised and trained miniature beagles and I spent many a weekend morning in my youth listening to Tiny and Beulah pushing
cottontails around the country.
Here are three recipes from my latest book, Pheasant, Quail,
Cottontail, which covers a range of small game animals, including rabbits, hares, and squirrels.
Even the wild game out West tends toward elk and mule deer, despite the fact squirrels,
cottontails, and jackrabbits can be found here in abundance.
If habitat selection by
cottontails is driven by a preference for dense hiding cover that reduces predation risk, then there should be a positive association between the probability of site occupancy and dominance of cool season grasses.
Between 1978 and 1982,
cottontails were the second most frequently observed road-killed mammal in central Georgia averaging 2.2 per 1000 km driven (average of 2.3, 2.1, 1.8 and 2.6).
Many eastern
cottontails were brought here a century ago by hunters or for hunters who much appreciated their tendency to run to the hounds in big circles -- a trait comparatively lacking in our New England
cottontail.
After an hour drive to the Refuge, the two
cottontails are released into a one-acre outdoor fenced area lush with blueberry, goldenrod, northern bayberry, and poison ivy.
It seems as though Zohapilco had a maximum availability of Mexican
cottontails as food resources in 5500 B.C.
Whether they were waterfowling, using dogs on an upland bird hunt or chasing
cottontails, or hoping to find that big buck, Americans were passionate about their guns and passionate about the hunt.
Rabbit hunters in Rensselaer, Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester counties are needed to help DEC gather information about the distribution of New England
cottontails. The New England
cottontail is the only native
cottontail east of the Hudson River in New York, but its range has been greatly reduced due to habitat loss and competition with the more abundant eastern
cottontail.
Cottontails, with their white tails resembling cotton balls, are probably America's most well-known wild animals.
Barbara Prignano received Honorable Mention in the Children's category for How Bunnies Got Their
Cottontails and Sequence, by Kenneth Rogers, Jr., was awarded Honorable Mention for Science Fiction.
Graduating from targets to
cottontails, jacks, squirrels or the like is well within the capabilities of a .22, and a great way to learn to hunt.
Abstract.-Stable carbon isotope composition ([[delta].sup.13]C) of bone collagen from
cottontails (Sylvilagus sp.) and jackrabbits (Lepus californieus) from prehistoric archaeological sites has the potential to monitor short-term, local vegetation patterns.
When chased by beagles,
cottontails usually run in a circle, eventually returning to the general area where they started.
