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3 unusual facts about New England cottontail


New England cottontail

Smaller populations exist in southern New Hampshire, Nantucket island, a part of Massachusetts near the Quabbin Reservoir, and some Boston Harbor Islands.

Before 1960, this species was found throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts (including Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket), Rhode Island, southern Vermont, southern New Hampshire, southern Maine, and all of New York east of the Hudson river north of New York City.

Tekoa Mountain

The mountain is also the habitat of the New England cottontail, a species in decline in Massachusetts, as well as a state endangered species which is not identified here due to problems with poaching for sale.



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