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National Wildlife Week's daily posters feature a beautiful image about the theme of the day on one side, and trading cards about the featured wildlife species on the other side. Each day has 9 new species cards that include:

    •  Photo of the Species
    •  Species Name (common and scientific)
    •  Habitat and Range
    •  Description
    •  Fun Fact
    •  Conservation Status

Download our TRADING CARD ACTIVITIES to get some ideas for how to use the trading cards. The trading cards can be used in many ways—as a launching point for lessons, for games or as self-contained activities. 

Wildlife with Innovative Defenses

Featured species:

• Nine-banded armadillo
• Walking sticks 
• Cacti
• Sea cucumbers
• Burrowing owl
• Toads
• Tarantulas
• Flying fish
• Bombadier beetles

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Wildlife that Survive in Unusual Habitats

Featured species:

• Bighorn sheep
• Bull shark
• Pupfish
• Resurrection fern
• Texas blind salamander
• Vernal pool fairy shrimp
• Polar bear
• Wood frog
• Mudminnows

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Wildlife with Special Adaptations

Featured species:

• Hawaiian monk seal
• Garden spider
• Rainbow trout/steelhead
• American dipper
• Puerto Rican coqui
• Bison
• Skunk cabbage
• Fireflies
• Alligator snapping turtle

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Wildlife that are Record Breakers

Featured species:

• Peregrine falcon
• Mexican free-tailed bat
• Leatherback sea turtle
• Blue whale
• Rhinoceros beetles
• Bristlecone pine
• Arctic tern
• Southern cricket frog
• Pronghorn

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Wildlife with Super Senses

Featured species:

• Little brown bat
• Rattlesnakes 
• Venus flytrap
• Northern mockingbird
• Moles
• Great horned owl
• Sawfish
• Cecropia moth
• Ants

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