Badgers 101
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Badgers are very tidy animals. Learn about the Badger.
Badgers are nocturnal and rarely seen during the day. When not active, badgers usually lie up in an extensive system of underground tunnels and nesting chambers, known as a sett. Occasionally, when the weather is particularly hot, badgers may briefly come above ground during daytime. The badger's most important food is earthworms, which are caught on pasture or in deciduous woodland, especially on wet nights. Other foods include bulbs (though not bluebells as commonly thought), small mammals and young rabbits. Blackberries and windfall apples are major food sources in the autumn. Cereals, particularly wheat, may be eaten, especially if other foods are in short supply.
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Hand-Raised Badger at the Home of a Wildlife Rescue Network Worker Photographic Print
Sartore, Joel
16 in. x 12 in.
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Badger Factfile
Hand-Raised Badger Bares its Teeth at... Joel Sartore 32x24 Photograph... Buy From Art.com 
- Badgers are very tidy animals. They spend a lot of time transporting grass, straw, moss or bracken to and from their sleeping chambers deep in the sett.
- Setts are handed down like family houses from generation to generation, and the badger uses the same sett year after year.
Plush Badger Stuffies
Badger Wisconsin
Badger Poster Art
The Wisconsin state animal is the badger (Taxidea taxus)
Adopted as a mascot of the University of Wisconsin football team and fondly referred to by Wisconsin fans as "Bucky Badger."
Badger, Close-up Mark Hamblin 48x36 Photograph... Buy From Art.com
Still at home in the Badger State Badgers are natives of the tallgrass prairie and savanna in the southern and sandy central part of the state. "Badgers dig mostly on the sides of the tunnel, which is why their excavations are typically a horizontal oval with numerous claw marks on the side. Badgers are most common in sandy central and western Wisconsin, but in the past decade they have been sighted in every county except Milwaukee.
Badger Books for Kids
Honey Badger
Badger Webcam
- Live Badger Webcam
- This camera is only live at dusk in the UK - approximately 9pm - 11.30pm
Every Picture Tells Your Story
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Badger Links
- The Virtual Badger Sett
- Badger movies, sounds, photographs, drawings, links. The North American Badger.
- Badgers - UK
- Description of badgers, their lives, births, deaths, family life, living space (setts), activities, fun, educational stuff, free for teachers. Badgerland is about badgers in the UK.
- National Federation of Badger Groups
- The NFBG promotes the conservation, welfare and protection of badgers, their setts and habitats. It represents and supports 80 local voluntary badger groups throughout Britain, provides expert advice on all badger issues and works closely with the police, and other organisations.
- Lancashire Badger Group
- Conservation group dedicated to studying and protecting badgers in northern England. Photo gallery, news, and events.
- The Mammal Society: Badgers
- Badger fact sheet for the Eurasian badger, Meles meles.
- Badger Info - A resource site about Badgers.
- Summarises available information for all of the world's badger 7 species. Also includes a photo gallery.
- American Badger
- Description and photograph of Taxidea taxus from the Mammals of Texas.
- Badgers on the Web
- Includes links, message board, news, merchandise, research information, and a children's introduction to badgers.
- Neath Port Talbot Badger Group
- Information about badgers, legal protection, group activities, photo gallery, and forum. Based in Wales, UK.
- Meles meles (Eurasian Badger)
- Details about the Eurasian badger from Animal Diversity Web.
- North American Badger
- Information about Taxidea taxus from the Animal Diversity Web.
- Research - Badger Ecology and Behaviour
- Information about a Eurasian Badger (Meles meles) research project at the University of Oxford.
- Cornwall Badger Group
- Information on the European Badger (Meles meles) and related problems and issues.
- Honey Badger (Mellivora capensis)
- Facts on this mammal's behavior, diet, breeding, distribution, feeding associations, and predators. Includes photo gallery and information research projects. Africa.
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Badger, and Cub, England
Les Stocker
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RebeccaE
Sep 17, 2011 @ 12:32 pm | delete
- this was very interesting thanks for writing this!
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Homelust
Jun 2, 2011 @ 4:27 am | delete
- I love Badgers!! Thank you!
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hotweb
Apr 28, 2011 @ 4:42 am | delete
- Great lens on badgers, well done. Perhaps you would like to support my lens which is against the culling of badgers in the UK badger-culling-fiasco
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Brick_House_Fabrics
Dec 19, 2010 @ 7:49 am | delete
- Have always wanted to see one!
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Mujjen
Sep 15, 2010 @ 2:57 pm | delete
- they are so cute, great lens!
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- The Wisconsin state animal is the badger (Taxidea taxus)
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- Every Picture Tells Your Story
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- Welcome to Our Sett
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