A large brown and white hawk, most frequently seen near water. The upperparts are dark brownish black, and the underparts are white. The head has a dark eye-stripe, a white eye-brow and a dark crown. Immature birds look similar to adults but may have buff on the breast and the back feathers are edged in white giving a spotted or scaly appearance.

Called the cat-like canine by one biologist, the red fox is a lean and agile hunter who, unlike most dogs, works alone, stalking its prey and then moving in close for the kill. Equipped with superlative hearing and vision, it can leap high in the air and moves very quickly in straight lines across open territory. Like raccoons, fox are opportunistic diners who eat everything from berries and seeds to mammals and birds.

This is a small, slender dolphin with a long, well defined beak. Average length is 2.1 m with a maximum of about 2.6 m. Weight may be up to 135 kg. Coloration is distinctive. The back is brownish-gray to black and the belly is white. A crisscross, or "hourglass" pattern of light gray, yellow, or tan bands occurs on the sides and a black stripe extends from the lower jaw to the flipper. The rostrum is black with a white tip and the eyes are set in a black, circular patch from which black lines run forward to the base of the snout. Although varying in extent between individuals, the black dorsal coloration extends down the sides below the dorsal fin giving the impression of a saddle

Pitch pine is a small to medium-sized native, coniferous (cone-bearing) evergreen which will grow in almost any situation on Long Island, but prefers full sun and porous soil.

In the last decade Long Island's wild turkey population jumped from zero to more than 300, thanks to efforts by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. Hunting and development in the early 1900s wiped out the Eastern wild turkey population in many areas across the United States, reducing it to s 30,000 by the Great Depression.

The white-tailed is a medium-sized deer with white patches around the belly, eyes, inner ear and underside of its tail. The brown coat varies from deeper and reddish brown in the summer to paler grayish tones in the winter. Fawn coats are spotted until they mature. Buck antlers, which grow in each spring and are shed in winter, can grow up to three feet across.