Birds and butterflies, ferns and frogs, mushrooms and manta rays, seashells and salamanders - this 576-page book includes more than 2,000 plants and animals of all types. Spanning the land from Florida to the Northwest Territories, it embraces field, forest, pond, prairie - all the natural communities that make our North American flora and fauna so splendidly diverse.. "North American Wildlife is really two books in one: both a valuable at-home reference and an extraordinarily usable guide to the most common and conspicuous wild plants and animals of our continent.